Recently I wrote "though I cannot actually see the love in my heart, the fear in my belly, the pain I am in, the joy I experience, I know they live in me because I feel them."
This morning I realize that it is not the feeling of love, fear, pain, joy that proves themselves...it is the presence of pain, love, aches, joy that does the proving.
Presence is the blinding light...it is the presence of God in our life, not the feeling, that proves God in our life. Our spiritual eye sees and transmits...transforms...transmutes, and we have our proof.
Our need now is for both a good rememberer and the discipline to use it. It is our remembering that builds our trust. True remembrance requires our daily attention...else a day, a week, any time lapse, and likely we forget it altogether or remember it glorified to egoic mind's specs...where looking good rules.
God's presence is always with us. Lest we missed the quiet word: Our acceptance of that fact began with our surrender of our self-determined idea of how God's presence should feel.
Voila! The dreaded surrender is acceptance aborning. That may well be a spiritually immutable law.
Thank you.
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