Friday, January 25, 2019

WE SERVE TO BEAR WITNESS

Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would serve of Your love, Your power and Your way of life. -- Anonymous

When we give our thanks to God for everything just as it is right this very minute, that includes our difficulties. With our thanks, we receive peace in our heart, and we repeat our thanks until we know that peace...most likely, with our difficulties still in place, but transmuted through peace.

Knowing that peace frees us to ponder other spiritual things, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Ah, and light breaks...the pursuit of happiness is where our free will lives...where we get to make our choice: God or gold?

Our spiritual growth reminds us that God it is, not gold, that takes away our difficulties, not by lifting them out of us, making them disappear without a trace. No. God takes away our difficulties through and by our staying our focus on God alone. 

We can give up the pursuit of our fantastical dreams...winning the Oscar without ever acting, being the discoverer of how to make healthy out of plastic. We can, however, use those dreams...dumbed down a tish, of course...as in, grow up, Lamb-chop. We seek God with a will, while we hold the goal to do our good in order to bear witness to others of Your way of life. 

Without that goal, we're apt to be proving the truth of Einstein's statement that doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, defines insanity. With that goal, we're living out the perfect objective which is of God...by serving others, we improve our self.

To put a fairly fine point on it, this within-goal improves our walking-around world. Face it, a goalless person is a rudderless person...been there, done that, no thanks. Besides which, He goes before us to make the crooked places straight.

Thank you.

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