I did not have a strong religious upbringing and am not strong on religion today. However, our How-To-And-Why Manual states that we need to agree with the religious ones...as in resist not and maybe learn...so I became willing to learn if not join wholeheartedly.
As a child, I heard that Saint Joseph's Day is March 19, my birth date, so naturally I have had a soft spot for the man ever since.
For whatever reason, of late his name has included itself in my meditative quiet time, and I have welcomed it...thus, him. He has become the carpenter in charge of shaping the wooden-ness of my heart. I pray my thank you, and, grinning, accept my you're welcome.
This morning came an idle thought...or possible blinding flash of the obvious: Joseph should get as much credit as Mary for faith. She, after all, heard the very voice of God. He only heard her voice...and he believed her. Not only believed her but stood with her.
Here's where knowing nothing, I speak freely, is my crutch to lean on...for today I'm taking this as proof that my faith is as strong as Joseph's was as strong as Mary's.
If his, why not mine? If him, why not me?
If he could have faith as strong as Mary's so can I...so can you...so can we. All we need do is to go with it, quit straining to feel it...straining is just resistance all prettied up, fooling nobody but our egoic mind.
Face it, "feeling it," is ego wanting proof of purchase. We did not "feel it" when we dragged ourself up off the floor and moved into a new life...spiritual in nature, self less.
There...I believe alive and growing.
Thank you.
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