ON REFLECTING PEACE TOWARD OTHERS

 Between human and human, only spiritual forces will suffice to keep them in harmony. -- Anonymous

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. -- Etty Hillesum

Love protects us from nothing, even as it unexplainably sustains us in all things. -- Saint John of the Cross via Fr Richard Rohr

 ....release the imprisoned God-Power within you. That Power, once operative, will immediately perform miracles. -- Anonymous

All of the above are quotes from my various daily readings. Each and all say the same thing to me; namely, there is a Higher Power within our very own self that is always available, always there for our own benefit, is most often the exact opposite of what we think we need (or what our ego is seeking), and it is that Power that produces miracles in our life.

Interesting to me, it seems a small but solid ego-block to our accessing that Power is our refusal to let each other know it by whatever name that speaks to us. I call It God and/or Jesus. My friend Gertrude calls it Buddha...and gets furious when she hears the name Jesus. An acquaintance  calls it Allah and thinks others bigoted for not. Etc.

It seems that when I try to let the Gertrudes be Gertrude (i.e., Wrong), I wind up with a resentment looking to do my thinking for me.

My peace has been enhanced mightily when I quit resisting their resistance...not by silent and superior judgment, but by sincerely asking God to bless my thoughts and heart about their thoughts and heart. He can! He has! He does! Equally important: I can't! Ah, but I can through the God Power within me.

We go to God for God and that is all. That Power, once operative, will immediately perform miracles.

Thank you.