Many years ago, when I heard that the first 100 of my people used the Sermon on the Mount as their guide book, I read it, probably for the first time. The King James version. I did not understand a word it was saying. I for sure did not like what I thought it was saying...which was exactly what it was saying, as in, get over yourself.
For my own spiritual growth, the realization came to me that, want to or not, I needed to study the Sermon. I needed and my new life would need to follow what it laid out. Thus, resist not evil became my mantra, my go-to, my life-guide. Of course, I have not followed it without fail, but, when I go there, without fail it brings me peace.
Today, facing oral surgery soon, I feel scared. Scared is fear and fear is evil. I do not seek the miracle of my fear being lifted...but I do joy in the "coincidence" of the message to me in today's God Calling: ...a miracle is a natural happening operative through spiritual forces. There it is. My natural happening is my feeling of inner peace with fear trying to ride herd.
I resist not evil. I embrace my fear. I kiss it on the lips. It is my beloved fear that is sending me deeper to God. Ah, the powerful peace of unknowing.
Thank you.
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