Tuesday, November 5, 2019

GOD AS LOVE AND LAUGHTER

November 4, 2017, note to me in my God Calling: Trump...there is a crack in everything. [The rest of the line being, that's how the light gets in from Leonard Cohen's "Anthem."]

This morning's blinding flash of the obvious: What if President Trump is a modern-day Saul of Tarsus? Saul was not a wonderful example of human goodness, but when Christ-struck became Saint Paul.

Quiet-time thoughts: What if I am Saul of Tarsus waiting to be struck? If that be true, I had better do a lot more shucking of my shields. And, whoa! What if, at the center, in the Soul, of each and all of us, we are Saul waiting to be struck?

For better or worse, imagine that is the state and the nature of the material world...Saul in our reasoning mind, Paul in our raised consciousness. Doesn't that give impetus to our personal need to lay down our sword and shield? As opposed to study war more.

It is my hope that the majority of the people of the world (that's 51%) want to be better than we are...kinder, more loving and generous. If that could be, what's our most likely holdback? I can be but will you? If I give and you don't, will I get mine?

There's no guarantee I'll get mine according to my own yardstick, but love and laughter preclude me from being as nasty as I want to be about it. That is precisely why my decision to throw in with the God of my understanding, who may just be love and laughter, is a reasonable answer.

Win-win. God first, we follow.

Thank you.

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