We can if we choose find the Sermon broken down into plain English in most anything we're reading. I found the following a while back but forgot to make note of what I was reading; the message, however, is clear:
Don’t focus on external conformity to moral codes, but on internal transformation in love.
Don’t have anxiety about money or security or pleasure at the center of your life, but trust yourself to the care of God.
If we (meaning you, meaning me, meaning the universe) would focus "on internal transformation in love," we would walk in peace...breathing in and breathing out peace as we walk.
I am reminded of John Lennon's "Imagine," when it was first out, and some well-known columnist wrote a screed denouncing it because "if it were taken seriously, someone would use it to take over our world." There...clearly, a lack of imagination.
Then, again imagine, trusting ourself to the care of God to the exclusion of anxiety about money or security or pleasure at the center of our life. Ah, it's easy if you try.
I submit that fear of trying is the bane of our life...simply trying to trust our own self much less our unseen God is apparently right next to impossible. And fear of loving...giving and receiving...is probably the reason we fear to try.
I was so afraid to love, I got a dog...God spelled backward as the old cliché goes. It worked...works.
With a sense of God as our guide, I'm convinced as an individual and as a group and as the universe, the dimension we live in is immaterial when (not if) we live by these two principles:
Don’t focus on external conformity to moral codes, but on internal transformation in love, and don’t have anxiety about money or security or pleasure at the center of your life, but trust yourself to the care of God.
And get rescued by a dog...or a cat. Don't get picky now...rescued is the goal.
Thank you.
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