"God calling!" Once, way long ago when I was young, that's what I'd say when my phone rang. I delighted in saying it...singing it out loud, really. I'd just been given my book, God Calling, and those words made a home in my heart.
My blinding flash of the obvious this morning is when our ego starts doing our thinking for us, obsessing over the various "slings and arrows" niggling at our brain, instead of tending that, we can immediately say, "God calling." Gertrude's perfidy? Joe's insult? Herkimer's snub?..."God calling!"
Because It is! Each sling, each arrow, is God seeking to do our thinking for us. To lift us out of our own solution into his perfect solution...which is always and ever love. It isn't as if our solution, responding in kind to Gertrude, Joe and Herkimer, has worked for us. All that got is them responding in kind to our responding in kind...and the beat(ing) goes on.
The single only thing in this world stopping us from loving in a loveless place is wanting to. What place needs love more? That loveless place is within us, begging for the love we already have but fear using lest we show our need for love. The only way we are ever going to realize the limitless love we already have is to use it...give it away...sling it with the arrows. Be a "Cupid," open and transparent, as opposed to a "Stupid," closed and opaque. There is no God there.
Stop the runaway train. Get off. God's calling. Listen...heed...love.
Thank you.
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