I have been mulling over what I can actually do to be a part of the solution in our today's world.
To find the ways and means in which I...at age 82, hobbling along on a cane, and in the midst of a pandemic...can actually contribute to the solution to our seemingly out-of-kilter world was clearly a stretch. The big Uh-Oh...clearly I would need to rely on my thoughts, and that being a flat fact, they needed to be upgraded.
In my morning quiet time, I've been turning my thoughts over to the care of God (to do with them and build of them as You will so that we may better serve).
And then I read in Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," about Thomas Merton: "He deeply believed that our inner healing was for the sake of the outer world."
I felt as if I'd had an epiphany. I knew to take that as answered prayer. We can lean into our upgraded thoughts without trying to think nothing but upgraded thoughts.
Trying to think nothing but upgraded thoughts is a self-determined objective, or, making like God...which, never forget, we are not.
In our new consciousness of trust we find we are living healing thoughts, we are feeling more welcoming, less judgy...we are knowing how-to within that first moment of How?!
Our raised consciousness is God's answer to our turned-over prayer. We can trust that...by the grace of God and gratitude.
Thank you.
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