ON PREPARING FOR A NEW WAY

You actually need this purgation and unknowing to prepare you for a new depth of living, knowing, and loving. —Brian McLaren  

Going forward from this pandemic, when and if indeed we do go forward from this pandemic...we can't return to our old normal. That ceased to exist with the election of November 8, 2016. The arrival of the pandemic in mid-March 2020 effectively sealed the deal.

I'm taking this shut-down year as the needed purgation and unknowing that is preparing us for a new depth of living, knowing, and loving.  

I take my comfort in not knowing where I am being led, not knowing what ways are being opened (or shut) to me. It is in not knowing that our trust is built, one anxiety attack at a time, With giggles and grins thrown in to help keep us moving forward.  

I remember being told all those years ago that Truth must be proved...individually and certainly not by thinking or analyzing. Today, I believe this is how we prove our truth...in the face of the unbelievable and the unacceptable, we realize that contrary to our reasoning mind's eye (unbelievable and unacceptable) our Father does know our needs. 

That being true, this is what we need to get over our own self...to let go of the clutter and the clamor we have made or allowed to be made of our world today.

I am brought again to Ralph Waldo Emerson's People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. 

There. It is unsettled that births hope in our heart, and hope it is that causes us to change our mind from reliance on the rational to a search for the spiritual. 

Ah, we change our mind, we change our destiny...and come to believe that God can and will, sought or not. We get to take the first step.

Thank you.