WE MUST START SOMEWHERE

Just knowing God lives within is not enough. 
Just knowing God lives within is enough.

I suspect those two thoughts exemplify the difference between reasoning mind and spiritual intuition...not enough being reasoning mind. (We've got to do, do, do...but what? how? when? where? Oh, I give up.) And enough being spiritual truth. (Sit and wait on the Lord; speak, Lord, your servant listens; How long, oh, Lord?).

It is the marriage of the two that gets things done, isn't it? Just because we don't know what to do in order to find the lost babies of the disastrous immigration policy should not keep us from doing something about something.

With our heart, soul, body and brains focused on God's best transmuting that policy...quick, fast and in a hurry...scrub the bathtub.

Holding to the fact that God's will is better than my will no matter how good I believe my will to be, I can clean out my closet and separate clothes to be let go of. I can sweep my balcony. I can look for a home for my planters that I can no longer plant. There. That's handing my skein of tangled thoughts over to God to do with as he wills that changes me. Like lemons into lemonade, our hate-filled judgments are being turned into good works through our good intentions. I choose to believe that our intentions matter to God.

I'm reminded of a favorite Bible story where the guy who was sold into slavery by his brothers, got lucky and became the pharaoh's right-hand man. The bros got unlucky and came running to him, admitting their wrong and seeking his favor...to which he said, "You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good."

And, who's kidding whom? Our ugly judgments, no matter how true they are to us, get nothing changed for the better...they only bring us down further into inaction, hate and self-harm. There's about the same amount of God in that as there is in the separate-the-children-from-their-parents
policy.

Think of "everybody wants to go to Heaven, nobody wants to die"...everybody wants to love, nobody wants to be the first to love an unlovable situation. But hate doesn't work, does it? If it did, we'd all be healthy, wealthy and wise...or better off than we are at any rate.

Love the Lord with all our heart, soul, body and brains, and love our enemy as our self. Or set our heart in that direction and trust...that's our decision for God.

Thank you.