ON BEING EASY IN OUR SOUL

Suddenly it occurred to me, I was easy in my soul. -- Livingston Taylor 

I read sentences like that, and I know it to be true for me. An hour later I'm praying for it to be true for me. An hour later, I know...etc. 

I admit that garbled reflection on me defines my personal self-acceptance. I find no fault in that upside/downside thinking...an hour from now, I may. 

There is no roadmap for our brain-thoughts or for our feelings. There is, however, better; namely, when a blinding flash assures us that, plain and simple, life is still more spiritual growth. Acceptance then is the daily application of spiritual truth to our questing mind...that determines our walking around ease in this world.

I came to see the root of my living angst was my want for perfect peace...the problem being that my want for perfect peace did not match up with God's will for the same. 

My idea: I get my want, my way with no harm to self or anybody else...one hundred percent of the time. 

God's idea: Trust God. (Translated for the reasoning mind...trust God before we have the evidence.)

The twisted logic to our material mind is that the worse the haps look to our reason, the more beneficial the gift from God...validation of this lesson is beyond centuries old. Just this morning I read this by Richard of Saint-Victor (whom I confess I never heard of), For the outer sense alone perceives visible things, and the eye of the heart alone sees the invisible. Isn't that comforting? 

Life is spiritual in nature and growing in that is God's ask. There. That is my easy in my soul. 

Thank you.