...once I have shown the way, it is against the tide you must direct all your effort. And even when difficulties come, it is by your effort that they will be surmounted. But always strength and the Joy in the doing you can have through Me. -- "God Calling," May 7
When first I read that quote, I could never have imagined that the most important part to me would come to be, But always strength and the Joy in the doing you can have through Me.
I was not enchanted with the promised fact that it is by my efforts that the digging and the climbing will get done. I simply skated right by that Joy in the doing part...there was probably an unconscious "Yeah, right" bubble in my mind, if that. I mean, whatever happened to Ask and ye shall receive?
It was when I was blessed with an attitude of gratitude, which was a pure gift from God scavenged from the ashes of my crashing and burning, repeatedly, that I realized the digging and climbing are my pearls beyond price. There it is. The evidence to my own ego Lucy that I can and will seek and do the will of a power higher than self, than her, and it, like ego, is forever and always instantly available to me.
Its text message is Love and Laugh...and keep on digging.
God is so good to me.
Thank you.
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