WE'RE NEVER NOT UNDER GOD'S UMBRELLA

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King

I love that quote. My problem, though, is the minute I read it, I immediately thought of others I could name to whom it applied. And there it is...the trouble with spiritual growth is it works. Learning or trying to learn to walk the Sermon is to accept that talking it is only wholly acceptable when we're talking to ourself.

So I tried pulling the sentence apart applying me and my behavior as the ignorant and/or stupid one.

It seems to me that sincere ignorance falls under God's umbrella. If I'm sincerely ignorant of some less-than-wonderful behavior I'm exhibiting, I can trust God to lead me aright to clarity...meaning I get to make my mistakes until I'm led by my own innate need and learned desire to do God's will.

So the correction for sincere ignorance would seem to be upon realizing our wrong, say our thank you, promptly admit it out loud, apologize and make our amends.

Conscientious stupidity, however, is a separate altogether pile of poop. Mainly because...who's kidding whom?..it is relatively easy to spot it out there...in her/him/them. But who recognizes unto admittance that they are being conscientiously stupid? I'm having a hard time not naming a few offenders even as I sit here typing...in my everso spiritual stance. Oh, and here comes God to light the way: That...that right there...is me being conscientiously stupid.

As I mentioned, the trouble with spiritual growth is it works.

The correction for conscientious stupidity is as yet a mystery to me. I doubt not it's pretty much the same, realize our wrong and promptly admit it. Ah, but our thank you, I'm betting, is contingent upon our willingness to forgive our judged ones...to loose 'em and let 'em walk free in our own head.  A tall, tall order when we're mentally married to our rigid, righteous and right opinion...just as I am right now. Speaking of falling under God's umbrella.

Father, forgive me for I know what I do, and I do it anyway.

Thank you.