SHARE IT...AND LAUGH

I've been pondering the power of crash-and-burn...the necessity of it actually. When we allow self-will to lead us down that dark and lonely wrong road again, we all but guarantee our own crash-and- burn. (I mean, whoever heard of a crash-and-burn while soaring with angel wings on the righteous road to Heaven?)

In a sense, doing it wrong is doing it right...nothing else drives us to God quicker, deeper or more desperately. In that desperation we comprehend that we are the source of our own woes.

And...best part...we accept that we might as well get grateful about it because that's an immutable.

Since we cannot stay in a place bereft of spiritual light...and there is no spiritual light in self-will...we affirm again that God's will is more desirable than our will no matter how good, true and right our will seems to us...or not all that good God's will seems to our reasoning mind in the moment.

The easy to forget, must needs remember, is that the pain of crash-and-burn lasts only as long as we choose. It really is our choice.

What we do: Run into the bathroom, take a long look in the mirror there and say aloud, "I am looking at my problem." There. Proof that our own self-centered-will struck the match that started the fire that lit up our night.

What we get: To love it and laugh. Even better, we then get to share it. And laugh harder.

Thank you.