AND GOD LOVES US

The quality [of loving kindness] is already within you, but if you don't choose daily and deliberately to practice loving kindness, it is unlikely that a year from now you will be any more loving. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 23, 2016 

As I prayed The Lord's Prayer this morning, I pondered that the prayer places our Father in Heaven, (to me, within), and then prays that "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven." (To me, "Thy kingdom," i.e., all God's goodies, that comes to me out there on earth, comes from within,  Heaven.)

All God's goodies, of course, are the likes of peace, patience, love, supply...and there was my blinding flash of the obvious. Supply. I have accepted, from my eyebrows up, that my supply is within me, but that has been purely intellectual.

This morning I saw a one dollar bill rather than the mile-high pile of gold I've ever tried to un-imagine. In that one dollar bill I recognized my consciousness of enough. There...my realization of supply moved from my head to my heart to my gut.

Then I sat down to read today's Rohr and there was the above quote. It radically affirmed my BFO and reminded me that I must choose "daily and deliberately to practice" the fact of all God's goodies being within me, today supply...or it is unlikely that a year from now I will have held that realization.

My own experience has taught me to use the patience I already have...by being patient with a dilly-dallying jerk (Lucy talking)...or by being kind to an ingrate (same goes). In short, by going against my own self-interest...or just by going against my own self.

As I've said before, I say again, it ain't easy. I suspect that's why there are atheists...they sincerely prayed for God to give them that which they already had, and ever looking outside rather than within, missed the gift there waiting to be used. Their miss proving to them that there is no God.

No doubt that is Lucy again, but, like a broken clock, on occasion she's right. And God loves her.

Thank you.