That incident crossed my mind this morning, and I knew if I stayed there, I'd own it, that I needed to let it go and now. Almost immediately I accepted that he is my angel. (This is not really an out-of-the-blue, whoever heard of such a thing? I have been practicing, imperfectly but steadily, letting everybody, be they friends, foes or relatives, be my angel ever since I first understood the concept.) So I was really grateful, not to mention relieved, to get it right then.
Then I read Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" for today in which he wrote: It seems that either we acknowledge that God is in all things or we have lost the basis for seeing God in anything, including ourselves. That's the gift I was given this morning...seeing the Unsub as my angel is acknowledging God in all things. Because to my reasoning mind, ye old Unsub was...oh, let's not go there.
And then, I read my "Words to Live By" in which Eknath Easwaran writes that the way to get free of self is to "...meditate and put others first and learn to be detached from the results of action, all together." [Based on Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachments to results, because there follows immediate peace. -- Sri Krishna (Bhagavad Gita)]
And THEN, to put an exclamation to the whole process, here's my "God Calling" today: Believe literally that the problems and difficulties of your lives can be explained by Me more clearly and effectively than by any other.
I feel like I did when I got my first gold star in grade school...elated! Because here's (more) proof positive I'm heading in the right direction not through dependence on my reasoning mind but by my dependence on believing literally that God can and will intervene in my life in my behalf. [From "Things My Sponsor Taught Me" -- Anonymous]
Thank you. Thank You.
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