...IF TURNED OVER TO

I went to the root of things,

and found nothing but Him alone.

Mira Bai

Your nemesis is the root of all your  good...resist it not for it is the Shepherd leading you Home. -- my morning blinding flash of the obvious

I wonder if the root of all things isn't in that infinitesimal space between stuffing our self-interest and living a turned over life. There, between the material and the spiritual mind, is the pinpoint upon which our raised consciousness rests, from which our raised consciousness flows.

The kicker, of course, is that even when we know and agree with our higher knowledge, we delay or detour its expression by trying to make it happen. That's still self wanting to control the outcome. 

Our reasoning mind, fed by our ego, does always legislate for itself...it cannot not. Even when we kid our self, say by remaining silent for Gertrude's peace of mind or donating to a cause to prove our spirituality. All self-determined objectives...none bad, probably better than not, but we get no points in our spiritual bank to draw on later. 

Those points come in our trusting God when God seems not there...when our nemesis, our fear...is in our face, riding herd. There. That is the infinitesimal space between acting and trusting. From which all blessings flow...some well-disguised, ah, but those are the pearls.

It is one thing to say...to know...God can and will intervene in my life in my behalf...it is another thing entirely to let him do his thing when the point of the sword is at our heart. 

Instead of saying, God can and will if sought, we should practice God can and will if allowed. 

Thank you.