AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Fear is the root of all negativity...anger, resentment, hate, even minor dislike. What we must needs remember...and recall...and remember again is when we think we're fairly fear-free and yet have out-of-the-blue attack thoughts, it is not anger that is our problem, it is fear.

We are told to wait for the faintest tremor of fear, then stop everything and turn our thoughts to God. If we're not aware that "the faintest tremor of fear" includes "the faintest trace of irritation," we can be deep into our own attack thoughts before our heart beats twice.

Today's "God Calling" sets out in the simplest terms the hardest lesson for us to learn: Do not seek to work for Me. It's a new day a-dawning when we realize the value of that advice...a self-determined objective, dressed up in our own minds as spiritual work, is still a self (not God)-determined objective.

It goes on: Never make opportunities. Live with Me and for Me. I do the work and I make the opportunities.

The path we take toward learning unto trusting unto showing that God's will is only good, not us mentally making good out of bad, is in those simple instructions.

We can want to do good. We can strive to be better than we are...we must, in fact. We just get to let go of the results of our wanting, of our striving. If it turns out good, wonderful, if it doesn't...ah, that's how we build our trust in God's will. By trying to do good and failing miserably to our own eyes, we often find later that failed result is our pearl beyond price...that which on our own we could never have brought about.

Vengeance...and everything else...is mine, saith the Lord.

Thank you.