GOD'S GOT IT, AND IT IS GOOD

From Thomas Merton's writings: When I am most sickened by the things that are done by the country that surrounds this place I will take out the [Hebrew biblical] prophets and sing them in loud Latin across the hills and send their fiery words sailing south over the mountains to the place where they split atoms for the bombs in Tennessee.

I am seeking (worrying) about what I can do, what actually can I do, to help our beloved Country now in its tortured time of need. I doubt not that many if not most of us are asking ourselves...what can I do?

Blinding flash of the obvious: This is when our trust in the unseen power of God is coming to fruition. Or, when our dependence on our rational mind is coming to crash-and-burn...again. 

I love Merton's way, singing...sending out the words of the prophets, loud and proud, into the atmosphere for all to hear but most especially toward the place where atom bombs were being built. I feel that right down into my bones...it feels so right, nonviolent, positive...of God. 

That is how we begin...when we have not a clue what to actively do, we hold nonviolent, positive thoughts in our head and heart.

We seek to find the good in any person we less than love...and forgive them by upgrading our thoughts about them.

We sing "Down By the Riverside" with it's God-message-chorus, ain't gonna study war no more. 

We pray Thank You...thank You for everything exactly the way it is right this very minute. Which is our affirmation that God's got it, and it is good. 

We trust God. We trust God because we know and affirm that He has already made right our world, and He is leading us to and through our part in it. 

We trust we will know what else we are to do and on His timetable.

...we must one day pass beyond discursive thinking and enter into a higher mode of knowing. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By" 

Thank you.