So live with Me in that Kingdom of Joy, My Kingdom, the Gateway into which may be service, it may be suffering. -- "God Calling," November 17
Reading that early on, I remember dreading what "service" I might be called to do...I missed the word "suffering" entirely. I have come to understand both as gifts...grace intervening in my behalf.
It's a major breakthrough when we grasp the importance of the word "Gateway." It reminds me of I stand at the door and knock. To our reasoning mind, that Gateway holds all our fear: What service? To whom and how? Then, of course, the biggie...suffering, how and how long?
There's the paradox: It is fear that halts us and fear that invites us.
We must hold our nose and take a leap of faith, that being the only way through the Gateway to live in the Kingdom of Joy. Our resistance is in our thoughts, projecting unknown service and suffering as too much for us to bear...let this cup pass from me.
It is our decision that God makes that pierces our will and our want-to. Being purged of hope...or our own ideas...our ego must crash and burn for us to be freed. This process takes us times without number (remember eons), but each time moves us a little further up the spiritual food chain...up where we belong.
When we realize that all things are possible to God, we've made our U-bie...we're heading Home. (Ah-hem...never forget, eons.)
Thank you.
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