A blinding flash of the obvious came to me in a prayer this morning...and I knew God had gifted me yesterday with Kipling's "If" for it opened me to receive my prayer today.
Basically, the prayer was nothing new nor different from that which we unknowingly pray and seek daily: to believe our doubters and all their doubts about us; to love our haters and all their hate toward us; to rise above nothing; to walk through every briar and bramble, knowing we walk with God; to accept every accolade with humility as we pass it on.
The flash of Love came in the realization that this is mine, this I have. And I felt melted. Then wondering.
Ah, and God has prepared me for the wondering with my morning's reading from Meister Eckhart, Sermon on Matthew 2:2:
Tend only to the birth in you and you will find all goodness and all consolation, all delight, all being and all truth. Reject it and you reject all goodness and blessing. What comes to you in this birth brings with it pure being and blessing. But what you seek or love outside of this birth will come to nothing, no matter what you will or where you will it.
I am taking "the birth in you" to be the BFOs, the spiritual insights, and "what you seek or love outside of this birth" to be the reasoning mind.
My trouble with God's perfect gifts is accepting them. I felt melted, however, my ego, Lucy With the Football, never to be denied, quick shot the thought: How do I wear this? What do I do that I'm not doing? In short, what's the personal result of this pearl beyond price?
The unknown result is the bane of the reasoning mind.
Ah, there's God's will shining through: The perfect tool moving us to continue seeking still more spiritual growth is unknown results...that's how we learn to: Tend only to the birth in you and you will find all goodness and all consolation.... Reject it and you reject all goodness and blessing.
Thank you.
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