GO BEYOND REASON...A HARD CLIMB

It is an understatement, but it is important to me right now to divorce myself from my own thinking. Like many of us, I am feeling the free-floating effects of isolation demanded by the pandemic. When I See Me coupled with isolation, I know this is not a healthy place for me. 

"Healthy" to me is spiritually fit, uncoupled from self-protection, happy for others...ergo, content within my own self. That's a hard climb in isolation, and isolation means no face-to-face contact. Period. 

I am an active user of Zoom, thanks to whomever for inventing it, I want it in my life...but it cannot replace actual personal contact. Too long with only hi-tech contact and for certain sure, comes the time when someone's feelings are hurt because of the insensitive, unkind, un, un and un of another. And the other is appearing on screen with hurt written all over their face for the un to them...both sure the other "started" it. And a chat room just doesn't work for putting a mind at peace.

Thereby the paradox: We need human face-to-face contact yet with contact for certain sure the time will come when feelings are hurt because of the insensitive, unkind, un, un and un of another. And the other has hurt written all over their face for the un done to them...both sure the other "started" it. But because we are face-to-face, we have not only the opportunity but the spiritual need to act on our guidance, i.e., when wrong promptly admit it. The wrong being, not the self-determined reason for the offense, but our choosing to feel offended in the first place.   

Now, what we have learned turns from so many words to actually experiencing their truth by our reliance on them. Be the first to give over is the blessing and, may I say, the well-hidden blessing. It is excruciatingly painful to our ego who whispers, They get to think I am admitting they were right and  I was wrong, only I was not wrong, and that's not fair. 

We quite literally know and go beyond reason to love there and then...that's the key that opens the door for our Father to do the work...the inside job we talk about. It's walking time.

Some random thoughts that are helping me detach from my ego and maintain a strong attachment to my Fellowship and my God right now:

Only I can pardon my persecutors, only I can set them free...for my persecutors are of my own thinking (my note in "God Calling").

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me....for they are my angels in disguise. The rod and staff  are my personalized attack thoughts that stand for those my ego tells me have attacked me, do not  like me, resist me. Relying on reason, I know that I must attack them for attacking me; going beyond reason to love, I resist not and know them for my angels...it is nonresistance that opens me to freedom from me.

When you have no clear guidance, then go forward quietly along the path of duty I have set before you.--"God Calling," June 24   

There. The clear direction to go beyond reason, to turn away from our first thought, a self-determined objective, inward toward love.

Thank you.