TRUDGING ALONG GOD'S ROAD

When we feel a self-need, the answer is to go deeper into that feeling of need. Most often we try to figure out how to fill it or fix it. We obsess on how-to until we must declare defeat...then we pray for God to fix it.

I try to remember this: A sense of need is itself heading in the wrong direction...that is simply our ego, my Lucy, scratching at the door of self, wanting to be let out. Our needs, being spiritually based, are fulfilled by God...our wants, ego-based, are ours to fill or release.

When someone asks me to pray for them or for somebody, e.g., their relative who is dying of cancer, I always agree, and I do. I include them, enfold them if you will, into my world prayer which I pray every morning, and it is always the same: Precious Lord, Help us, each and all of us in this world, to know your will for us and give us the power to carry it out. Thank you for our everything just as it is right this very minute. Amen.

I know in the praying that God's will, which is always love, has already been carried out, and it is for the best for all. Our spiritual task is to see it through God's eyes and feel grace. If, however, it looks like cow piles, Lucy is still doing the viewing.

This is when we turn it, turn it, turn it, until we find the sliver of gold. It is there, it cannot not be there...find it and thank God, for no matter how slim the sliver of gold, it will grow as we are now turned in the right direction.

We are trudging along God's road now...with love and laughter.

Thank you.