GO TO GOD FOR GOD...AND THAT IS ALL

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself insofar as you are a created being and let God be God in you. -- Meister Eckhart 

I got that quote from today's Eknath Easwaran's "Words to Live By," which book I have read daily since it was gifted me in 1996. And, who's kidding whom, that has ever gone over my head like a hairnet. 

Interestingly, in reading Merton's "Events and Pseudo Events" today, I got a glimpse of all, all, that we see, hear, think, feel in the material world is simulacra...which word I had to Google: simulacra - something that replaces reality with its representation. 

My interpretation of that is the material world, our reasoning mind's home, is an illusion...used by us to replace God, the reality of God, the only reality.

What came to me from Merton's quote is the aborning realization that we must take each sight we see, or memory, good/bad, and turn it over to God...higher consciousness. There without thought to be stripped of all its bells and whistles to find naught but God there.

This is, of course, an intellectual exercise right now...but what spiritual growth isn't at start up? 

I'll no doubt need to make my see-it-now, along with every less-than memory, acceptable to my reasoning mind in order to let it go entirely. I'll pray my thank you, and in the unlikely chance God strips me clean in a holy minute, I'll be grateful. But I know me better than I know God, and I'm glad I've given me permission to do what I do to get where I'm going...to God.

Just to mention, I relate to Eckhart better than to Merton. I mean, Eckhart never uses words like "simulacra." In fact, so far, I've never had to Google Eckhart, yet I've just started with Merton and already...enough said.

Love and laugh...and go for It.

Thank you.