As I pondered this morning just how one does grieve alienation from community, I was led again to my "God Calling." There was...is...my answer: Learn to know Me more and more and in that Knowledge you will have all the answers you need.
That is the forever answer. To our ever-questing mind.
Our here-on-earth quest is for certain sure, period. Our answer is ever nebulous...answers like, love and laugh and love more or love is in the problem, find it and be at peace. Drives the reasoning mind bat-blank crazy.
It takes a boatload, and then some, of hitting the crazy wall before we get a glimmer. And there it is, there's our sliver of gold...bat-blank crazy is the end of the line. That's our drop kick me, Jesus, through the goalposts of life moment. When we've given up all hope of figuring it out, fixing it, getting it right...that which we strive for so dearly...we are at surrender. Beaten by our own self unto acceptance.
Without surrender we could not come to the best part of our story. Which starts with our getting a clue: We cannot do this. Not on our own, not by our own efforts, and for sure not by our best thinking. It's that best thinking of ours that leads us right back to crazy. There's the proverbial circular firing squad.
Without surrender we would continue to try...and we often do try, but the trip is way shorter now. And, face it, that's how we learn to laugh at our own self...and to love us anyway.
Big reveal...the answer really is love is in the problem, find it and be at peace. Our need is to find agreement with whatever or whomever we are resisting. No matter how slender the point of agreement (ah, that sliver of gold), that agreement must needs become our focus. We turn away from our own set-in-concrete opinion and open our mind to the other's opinion as having possibility.
Which answers my morning's question of just how one does grieve alienation from community. We find our part in the alienation...i.e., we cease justifying ours...and seek through praise to understand at least some part of the other side of the story.
We say often that more will be revealed. There it is...we cease finding a reason to fight and seek to understand. Then we can love and laugh freely, knowing more will be revealed.
Love, laugh, repeat.
Thank you.
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