JOY IN FEELING GOD'S HUG

[This is a reworked version of a post of mine from December 2015.]

  

I suspect that the only real bondage is the inner bondage of self-centered fear...and, as has been asked, what other kind of fear is there? The gazillion what about mes?...what ifs? The garbage of the future that sends otherwise rational people to an early grave or, more like, a desire for it...or their medicine cabinets. God who?

We all have the occasional what-to-do panicky thoughts no matter how deep our spiritual growth. The discipline is in limiting the time we give to the panic that walks, talks and cries like a baby in our head.

We know, we know: Upgrade our attitude...change our mind. It takes a minimal amount of time...a heartbeat...to turn our thoughts toward God. It is our ego-fear that we must detach from. It only has as much power as we give it, but when we give it an inch we have given it our all.

The paradox is to detach by not resisting. Resist not evil, a.k.a., kiss it on the lips. That and a shaky but sincere thank you, and we joy in the feeling of God's hug. 

Thank you.