GRACE TELLS ITS OWN STORY

My great delusion was that if we followed great spiritual leaders, most of whom preach love as the answer, we would know, feel, be protected from hate and all its variations. No. What I continue to learn is that we must walk in a state of love through hate and all its variations.

There is no protection.

To walk in a state of love, impersonal love if you will, is to stay utterly focused in the now. Now, the hidey hole of the God of my understanding

Bad news alert: If we feel the need for protection, we have lost our focus and are back in our reasoning mind zone. Good news follows: That is the human condition, to feel the need for protection. But to expect to live protected (i.e., fear-free) is why they say expectations will do us in.

There it is, the paradox. From our eyebrows up, we get the word: There is no protection. We expect, therefore, to feel no need for protection. And there's our gift...we find otherwise.

In a state of love, our expectation is upgraded to gratitude...gratitude for our troubled times. That is divine grace...unseeable, untouchable, scientifically unprovable...yet it carries us through unscathed in our heart, our Soul, no matter the "slings and arrows of outrageous fate."

The pearl beyond price is to be carried through our troubled times with no one else knowing...and not telling. The Pearl will tell its own story.

Thank you.