As usual, I read my "God Calling" this morning, but the first sentence...the first paragraph!...of the reading sent a tingle, a chill, a whaa? through me. I felt gobsmacked twice-over.
Here is the source of my, ummm, surprise: You must say 'Thank You' for everything, even seeming trials and worries.
See my dilemma?
I have read those words close to every day for nearly 45 years, yet there is not an underline, a hi-lite, no note by me at all marking them...as in, no indication that I attached any importance to them...or that they attached to me.
However, some years back I felt thunderstruck when I read Meister Eckhart's If the only prayer you pray in your life is thank you, that would suffice. Which I have not only quoted daily but have lived by also daily...or close enough...since the day I first received or realized the import.
I suppose I feel so elated this morning for there is the proof I seek...the answer I have been relying on, living if you will, for the past maybe 20 years has been mine for the past nearly 45 years. So, for 25 years I have wandered through my life clueless, praying for I knew not what. All the while, there was my answer in my daily reading...more importantly, awaiting within me. (Actually, waiting since before conception, but that's a whole 'nother, deeper layer higher.)
Now I can aver from my own experience: All our answers are within us, waiting to be realized, all our needs are already met within us, waiting to be released...not by self-will but by the Father, not we, when he knows we are ready.
The Father knows our needs. Yes! Now we sit and wait on the Lord. Oh. Rats. But thank you!
Thank you.
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