When your material goal is reached, then the material will serve only to attain the spiritual. -- "God Calling," June 19
It seems to never fail...I read that sentence every year on this day, and my first thought is "When, not if...so I am going to reach my material goal?" Clearly, my first thought is eager anticipation of dollars coming my way...a lot of dollars a'coming my way. It is a flash, gone almost before it comes, but it does come.
Here's the great, glorious, Free At Last fact: A transformative thought then sweeps through me. It feels like my own personal warm velvet blankie, and it smothers my over-zealous free-floating guilt with the inner certainty that I have reached my "when." There is no "if" for me today.
I reached my material goal when I was freed from fear of financial insecurity. And not because of the amount of dollars in my savings account for sure. I was gifted with a consciousness of enough...of everything.
That fairly well exemplifies the nature of my spiritual growth...I need to be reminded that I have spiritual growth. And the reminder is not mine...it is God's. There. There's the gold in over-zealous, free-floating guilt...God wraps it in love, and it is gone.
Thank you.
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