You do not need to believe in God to be a good and decent person. Those words were spoken to me by a friendly atheist I met nearly 50 years ago; he opened my mind to the nature of spirituality, i.e., it fits all.
Again this morning I recall those words that one does not need to believe in God to be a good and decent person, and I know again that until I did, I wasn't.
I'm toying with the idea that that may be the source of our country's ills and woes today. Few there be who from their hearts are singularly good and decent persons or know the need to be.
Our country is us...U.S. It is our individual need to be good and decent persons, not just for ourself but for our country. Then the individual I and our country again can and will know walking-around grace.
According to me, until we individuals believe in a Higher Power...indeed, until we are living for the benefit of others being as primary to us as our own benefit already is, we are living for me, myself and i. There is no lasting peace in a self-driven life for it does not allow for the realization of impersonal love...only self or personal love.
In looking back, we see the simplicity: We make the decision to in effect quit trying to be a good and decent person all on our own...because we fail so consistently...and begin our search for spiritual growth. That's called turning our will and our life over to the care of God.
There. We have found our impersonal love, God, who knows naught but Love. And Laughter.
Thank you.
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