Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few. -- Matthew 7:13-14
I've never been a reader of the Bible so it needs not be said that includes the Koran, and I don't even know the names of the other religions' sacred texts. I do know that when I crashed and burned and came into my life-saving fellowship, I was told the founders had used the Sermon on the Mount for their original guidebook.
So I stumbled and bumbled along searching the Bible until I found the Sermon. Well. First thought on first reading: What. A. Crock.
That was going on fifty years ago, and I am still stumbling and bumbling, but I've followed in the founders' steps, pretty much all based on the Sermon, to guide me. Miracles happen when our mind is opened, and my mind has been opened...exchanged if you will.
This year 2020 has proved my new way of thinking to be a very good thing for I can sometimes recognize divine intervention when it appears. Based on the flat fact that I know if my disease can be a good thing, and it is to me today, then so can this year be a good year.
Follow me if you will: We are given free will, our life's work is to regift God with that free will. The Sermon is the how-to manual for regifting. Entering by the wide gate, we rely on self and self-will, ego directed. Entering by the narrow gate, we choose to leave behind our ego-directed way, to sit and wait on the Lord, who can and will guide us from within. And that way is narrow indeed.
We who choose to hear are being called to enter by the ever narrower gate. Loose our own opinion...of anything...and let it go.
With a sincere heart and an opened mind, I choose to know 2020 as the year of Divine Intervention, and I am graced with gratitude for my egoic mind cannot imagine how that can be possible.
Thank you.
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