NOT BY WILL BUT BY WISDOM

Blinding flash of the obvious:  Not by will but by wisdom.

I can only judge me by my own limited knowing. That hopeful thought floated by me this morning just as I was sitting down to read Merton...about "The Technological Imperative."  I knew by that title this was  going to be way over my head, but I waded in. It was way over my head. 

He wrote, "...when technology  merely takes over all being for its own purposes, merely exploits and uses up all things in the pursuit of its own own ends, and makes everything, including man himself, subservient to its processes, then it degrades man, despoils the world, ravages life, and leads to ruin."

Even as I read that, it translated itself to me as, "Trying to detach from a character defect by reading about it, analyzing it, going to therapy for it...or just obsessively thinking on it...is going down that wrong road again. Find God there. Thank you." 

My hopeful thought about self-judgment gave me permission to accept my no-frills spiritual breakthroughs as being as valid to me as technological breakthroughs are to scientists. Indeed.

I reread Merton at the point where he wrote, "Technology can elevate and improve man's life only on one condition: ...that it remembers that the origin and goal of all being is in God."  Indeed, indeed.

Don't tell me God doesn't know...and fulfill...our needs. Our realization takes a tish longer to come by...proving that we get there not by will but by wisdom.

Thank you.