If a grey day is not one of thankfulness, the lesson has to be repeated until it is. Not to everyone is it so. But only to those who ask to serve Me well, and to do much for Me. -- God Calling, January 22
It seems I write about that quote every January 22, but I tend to think of the first sentence there as the most important...ah, but the not to everyone is it so has just asked to be noticed.
Those of us who live in our rational mind, even with spiritual intentions our desire, can run into ugly and repeat thank you till our face falls off...if we are doing our thank you to make ugly go away, ugly will not be moved. We are self-determining the results we desire...in effect, still running our own show. That's like trying to float our own boat with no water in sight...just our prayerful thoughts of floating. All things are possible to God, but some are less probable than others.
I believe a quote in today's "Daily Meditation" by Fr Richard Rohr puts it perfectly. He uses a passage from Corinthians as written by Shane Claiborne that says: If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing (1 Corinthians 13:1-3, author’s paraphrase).
To me, that's Saint Paul clarifying why we get bupkis when we are living in the material world trying to do good by our own reasoning mind standards rather than living in God consciousness...which is often the opposite of what our rational mind dictates.
We must go beyond reason to love. -- "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" by Thaddeus Golas
Thank you.
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