THROW IN WITH THE SPINACH

We receive, we do not get. We receive from within...our Soul speaks and the Word spreads throughout...from in, out. We get by going after...reading, hearing, learning. In the material world, getting is essential...in the mystical world, we intuit. - Blinding flash of the obvious

Eknath Easwaran has written that it is the ordinary choices that we make every day that changes the direction of our lives.Those ordinary choices are based on our reading, hearing, learning, experiencing. We come to understand that while the ordinary, daily choices we make really are the determiner of our fate, the final choice comes to: Trust God and do something about something.

Those choices are the dough that make the bread of life...our consciousness...which lifts us into a spiritual plane. We slowly detach from reliance on our material mind...we shuck our shields so to speak.

There will come a time, however, if not in this life, then the next, when "through great love or great suffering" we fail utterly and completely...left without a penny to bless our self with or a friend to borrow one from.

We will come to know that as our moment of grace.

For here comes God!..riding the wind and breathing peace, love, joy and forgiveness. Only it looks to our reasoning mind like spinach, and...well, you know. But it is in that moment that grace completely defeats our reasoning mind and our decision is made for us...throw in with the spinach, we have no choice.

And there it is...using our reasoning mind's inch-long yardstick, spinach could never be the right answer. But there is nothing God cannot use for our good...let go and let God.

Thank you.