KEEP IT SIMPLE, STUPID

Only in the degree that we accept and really understand His word -- feel and gain the connection of God as the reality of our being, feel this oneness, this contact -- only in that degree can we prove the law that says that no harm can come to  us, that no weapon that is formed against us can harm us. -- Joel Goldsmith, "The World is New," pp 104-105

There is the pearl I seek...the conviction, the revelation, the reality of God as my being.

AAAAAAAAh. It is in the seeking that I lose My way!

Now what?

And with that question, I read my today's Rohr, and there's my answer: 'Wash yourself of yourself,' says Rumi [a Sufi]. 'Be melting snow.' 

That sounds so right. And reading it, talking it...hey, look at me, I'm flying!

Howsomever, as Grandma would say...for my poor pitiful walking-around comprehension, that boils down to ego deflation in depth. Which, like just change your mind, cannot be done on want-to alone. We gotta go higher to our deeper place within...God's hidey hole.

I've found try not to be as nasty as you want to be a sure start. That may be as close as I ever get to agree with your adversary quickly, plus it heads me in the right direction...away from want-to toward need-to. 

I suspect I dismiss self-determined objectives too quickly. Wasn't it exactly that...a self-determined objective...that started me seeking still more spiritual growth? God induced, of course. Then, same thing that led me to attempt actually doing less me-first things.

I recall how it is said that self-preservation is the first law of man. It would not surprise me one bit to learn in the end that is the first "law" we need to jettison...that is, if we really want to stroll across Heaven all day.

Face it...that which sounds so right and true, wash yourself of yourself,..be melting snow, wipes self-preservation off the board.

Oh, here's a thought: Trust God. Clean house. Help others.

God loves me so much.

Thank you.