STAND ON IT!

That all things are possible to him who believes; that they are less difficult to him who hopes; that they are more easy to him who loves, and still more easy to him who perseveres in the practice of these three virtues. -- Brother Lawrence

If you overcome your enemies, you’ve failed. If you make your enemies your partners, God has succeeded. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 9, 2016

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu

For awhile now, the goal of my life, daily, has been to soften my mind toward the possibility of the worst presidential candidate in the history of the United States of America winning this election. I read and think on the above quotes often because I'm a believer that the "enemy" is my own thinking, my judgment in a word.

At any rate, if that possibility comes true, I'd best be ready. I'm reminded of the old gospel song that has the line, "I want to be ready, I want to  be ready, I want to  be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John."

That's my guideline today...to be ready to love. To love the fire in the forest, the plague in the village, the rot in the fields...for they are nothing but a call to surrender. I take heart in reading of those who lost everything in floods and fires, disasters of all kinds, and years later testify to that being the change that bettered their lives. In breaking them, it caused them to seek and receive help from a power greater than themselves.

I know for me that the more I resist the picture before my eyes, when I let go, the more surely it will be that God's hand was in it all the time. We can rely on our belief that God can and will intervene in our life on our behalf, and that his intervention is seldom by fulfilling our wants. It's by showing us our needs (his will) is better for us that our wants. We slowly move our belief from the head, into the heart, on to our gut, down to the soles of our feet. Then we stand on it!

There. That's why, like I said, I started awhile back softening my own rigid, righteous and right mindset. Accepting its rigid righteousness is moving in the right direction. Which tells me God is on the field, and that's all that is necessary.

Thank you.