EACH DIFFICULTY...A GIFT

God’s will for us is clearly revealed in every situation of every day, if only we could learn to view all things as God sees them. . . . The fullest freedom I had ever known, the greatest sense of security, came from abandoning my will to do only the will of God. . . . (Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek after 15 years in a Siberian prison.)

I am reminded of the late John Lewis who was beaten so badly on the Edmund Pettus Bridge all those years ago. With his recent passing, I am learning more about his life...namely that he lived by the Sermon on the Mount. He was ever my hero but...oh my, that seals the deal in my heart. 

I laugh as I think and begin to type: Living by the Sermon is not easy. Like that is news! And yet, I suspect that's what has caused my recent pause...questioning myself. Am I going in the right, i.e., spiritual as opposed to self-determined, direction? I keep bumping up against one concrete wall after another...oh, also known as myself.

My ego Lucy With The Football has been driving my thought-bus recently...and, yeah, pandemic, peaceful protesters being teargassed, voting rights, yada, yada, yada...but I am responsible for my own mindset, my own continuing thoughts, my own Body of Work, me, in a word. I am responsible for bringing my, myself and I to God at the first hint of inner/outer disturbance.

And here comes God to save my day...my "God Calling" is opened to July 24, but I glance over and see the entry for July 23 which in part reads: Look on each difficulty as training to enable you to acquire [My] peace. 

God is so good to me. For that is precisely what the priest Walter Ciszek wrote about; i.e., learn to view all things as God sees them. That is how we are meant to acquire My peace, through turning our will and our ways over to the care of God and using His eyes to look on our life just as it is right this very red-hot minute.

Right or wrong, I'm going in the right direction since all roads lead to God...just cut down the lag time, and go to God first. Kiss Lucy on the lips, pat her on the head and move on.

Thank you.