Of all things, I'm hearing lately that peace, love and joy are getting a bad name. Go figure. There are so many words, acts...thoughts even...that qualify for less-than-wonderful, why pick on the exact opposite to resist?
Maybe that's the why of it...the exact opposite proves individual originality to our ego. Ego will ever speak louder than God...not better, just louder.
The raw wonder of peace, love and joy is that we cannot just do them, or any one of them, on self-will alone. We cannot manufacture them. They are not of our own self. They live within us with God in his hidey hole, and they emerge by grace as needed and without human manipulation.
Now we come to our job...which is to let them, i.e., to unblock or to open the channel from which peace, love and joy flow. Which, according to me, is right next to the eighth wonder of the world. To open our self represents our willingness to allow our own self to grow smaller. In short, to let means we say thank you, and lay down our sword and shield. And that is all. Oh, then wait.
No one knows the day or hour....
Thank you.
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