THE SPACE BETWEEN...WHOLLY HOLY

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

Some of us, caught in the self-serving trap of self unaccepted without a power greater than ourself for guidance, often allow that we are "at least" not conceited. May I say, "at least" does not touch it. 

We are prisoners to our own self...to our own thinking. 

The path to freedom from self is caught in the space of a heartbeat, the blink of an eye, a nanosecond. There is no rhyme or reason for it intellectually...face it, there is no time for intellectual pondering. It is there, as Viktor Frankl describes, in the space between stimulus and response. 

There. The space between. The holy hole. Ours is not to fill the hole but to find our rest there. 

The decision to give over, give up, give in can easily fill that space...for it is already ours just sitting within, waiting to be called up. Our ongoing higher education is our acceptance that the reasoning mind cannot of itself recognize that to give over, give up, give in is the path to freedom from self. 

We can worry that till our face falls off...ponder, think about, analyze, draw maps, diagrams and graphs...all simply delaying tactics to keep our power source at bay. Primarily because our higher power is invisible, untouchable, virtually mute but...here's the basic unbelievable attribute of the Higher Power: It is wholly good and wholly for our benefit. Or, more specifically, It is wholly for the benefit of all. Everyone. 

Impossible. Unbelievable. Who's kidding whom? That just does  not make a lick of sense.

Remember that space between? Go there. Get quiet. Pinpoint focus on that space between. 

We are Now in God's palatial mansion. And no, our reasoning mind cannot get us there. We must go beyond reason...to love.

Thank you.