A pearl beyond price is the realization that giving over, giving up, giving in is the path to peace.
Ah, but there's always another pearl following...or there'd better be.
Our deeper peace comes not in simply giving up, giving over, giving in. No, deeper peace comes when we release our personal giving-up objectives...then we are opened to receiving God's perfect objectives.
I suspect we must needs stay awhile at the giving-up level until we realize that in the giving we actually do have our own objective. Often that is our want to do God's will without waiting on God to elucidate.
We are learning that we can neither remain silent out of fear (self-centered fear and what fear isn't?) nor can we speak out from our own self-glorifying wants.
We sit and wait on the Lord, and in a just cause, it is God's objectives...God's will...flowing from within that we speak. We can plan no words for we trust the words we speak are his stating his just cause.
As an aside, derision may follow. We shoot a silent thank you and know it is not ours to fix for that is what is known as an unjust cause. Remembering silence really is golden, we know our lesson is learned when we do it...hush, in a word.
With God's voice, there are no words, yet no silence either. We speak what is spoken through us. With love and laughter in our heart.
Thank you.
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