IT IS...SO BE IT

When we seriously and sincerely seek to get over our own self, ego-deflation in depth, we find that the dark night of the soul is not what we think of as necessary...it just is. 

We can fight that or we can accept complete defeat...which ushers in the realization that not winning is the pearl beyond price.

Fr Richard Rohr often writes that the way through is by great love and by great suffering...it is ours to discover that neither can be self-directed. Leaving the way through drifting up from within in wisps until, as we look back, we realize it was ever our own.

I think of being lifted into God consciousness, the kingdom of heaven, as realizing there is no lack...no natural attachments, i.e., ill health, poverty, unhealthy relationships. I do not doubt that my own thinking will need changing...mainly because if I can image God and God's ways, I'm still set in my own imagining. 

I ponder that and know I believe today in the mirror-image of God...what we see as "Oh, No" is God's pearl beyond price, His "Yes!"  Reverse the idea of God consciousness as no lack, and any one or all of those...ill health, poverty, unhealthy relationships... may come to us, may be what our free will has chosen. 

Ah, there is the alter of crash-and-burn.

It may be that we arise from the ashes of our crash-and-burn with a changed consciousness. Health, wealth, wisdom and relationships are here and Now, the change being that our care and concern for others are the beneficiaries. In our new consciousness, we are free of care and concern for self. We are free to be free.

As pretty as all that may seem, the promise is that God consciousness is infinitely superior...divine. Unimaginable, in fact. We can only let it be.

Thank you.