If I don't love God for what I can get, why do I love God? -- thought on awakening
I suspect we have all read if we're going to God to get, we're not going to God. Meaning, we're going to our own idea of God, i.e., Santa Claus. That came to me this morning as I awoke when out of nowhere...pop quiz: If I don't love God for what I can get [or what he can give me] why do I love God?
We seek God, but what is it that we're seeking that we attribute to God? What are we seeking that we think can only come from God? We have long since let money, power and/or someone to love go...from our eyebrows up at any rate.
We pull the pretties out and parade them around in our head...peace, love (in a nebulous form), joy. [Cow-pile alert: When nebulous anything comes to mind as a viable want-to, we can be sure that Lucy's on the loose, again.]
We are learning...have been learning for a lotta, lotta years, it seems...that Soul-satisfaction comes from our care and concern for others...from giving to, from doing for. Lesson learned: That is true!
What we're not taught...can't be, I'm guessing...is that our ego-based reasoning mind goes right on wanting...for us, for our personal good, for our personal peace...for our I Got Mine. That's if we're doing it right!
There it is...there's the hardest lesson. We do live in a material world, we are gifted with material thoughts, wishes and wants, and our life is our education, learning how to live in that world happily and usefully whole.
Some of us take to the spiritual way, some go for formal religion, some become atheists, some don't care one way or the other. It makes no nevermind which path we choose to walk, but we're better off within our own self if we do it as a happy, useful person.
We are going to wind up where we wind up. My personal idea of Heaven is me doing high-fives with Jesus, giving belly rubs to Ruckus and strolling across Heaven with family, friends and lovers who have gone before me.
And I'll take whatever God wills for me here and now.
Thank you.
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