BE GRATEFUL FOR A GREAT NEED

I came across a note I wrote to me some years back: When our need is greatest, our Father is nearest, and I thought, actually that's when our reception of our Father is clearest.

From reading Eknath Easwaran, I have learned about one-pointed attention...how to meditate into it. More honestly, I need say I am learning, there is no past tense about it...which means I'm heading in the right direction, thank you.

My need feels great this morning...what with the pandemic and taking care not only for my safety but for the safety of others around me...masks, please...the civil unrest, the righteous and essential civil unrest, the continuing dishonesty of our elected officials at the highest levels, etc. There. There is so much at 6s & 7s in our world that we must resort to an "etc." 

Ah, all that going on, yet I know none of it is my main concern this morning. My main concern is my thoughts about all of it, all that is going on. 

This BFO focused me: Our consciousness is raised but we must never forget from whence we came. And I saw the Pilgrims fleeing persecution in England, the framers of our laws seeking a new freedom for "all," women marching for their equal rights, the civil rights movement still going on today. All came about through a raised consciousness...we must never forget where it started. 

What we are experiencing now is why we must never forget, why we must stand on it. Stand on our raised consciousness. And continue to stand on that which first changed our mind, upgraded our attitude, gave us hope that change is ours to effect.

All of that birthed by and through our reliance on a Power greater than ourself as our Guide. Our Guide. Not just the doer, but the Guide in our doing.

We have been given spiritual principles to use in following our Guide's will and way. We lose when we use our self-determined objective, no matter how good that may look and/or sound. For we now know...most important was the discovery that spiritual principles could solve all our problems. 

If we all work together not to get what we determine is best for us, but to come to agreement on the spiritual principles we need to live by, then our thoughts become focused...one-pointed. And there it is: God's invitation to take the reins. And reign.

Thank you.