Who was the guy, a Greek?, who took his lantern and went out searching for one honest human? I'm thinking he was believing, or saying anyhow, that if he could find just one honest human, that would save the world. There's not a snowball's chance I've got that entirely right, but it's close enough.
That's what I hold to when the world...my walking-around-in-it world...seems in danger of collapse through sheer self-aggrandizing politicians, liars, thieves, cheats and whores all. Not to put too fine a point on it. Lucy may have typed that, the Lord may look askance, but there it is.
I earnestly pray for one honest person to save us from ourselves because that may be the one thing we haven't tried. My prayer is simple, being: Let it be me. Let it be me. Let it be me.
That's the hope I hold for each of us, for each individual in the universe. If we would hold that one prayer, and then be it...wars would end, peace would descend upon us, and we'd all have ice cream and cookies every day and not gain weight...OR...we'd all have love in our heart and laughter on our lips. Both equally unlikely...miraculous in a word.
But wait a minute! The only thing miraculous about it is our actually doing it. We discount it as an impossible wish...enough said. No. It is not impossible...if You, if She, if He, if They, if I will but try it.
Here's my definition of what my honest human is: One who loves the God of our own understanding with all our heart, all our soul, all our body and all our brains, and loves our friends and our enemies as our self by wanting more and better for them than for self. (Which is no great shakes if we honestly believe that the Father does know our needs and does have our back.)
No, I'm not even close, but I know I'm heading in the right direction because the idea came to me, and I accepted it. The miracle is, I got started. Join me?
Thank you.
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