A new "answer" is in the wind...our egoic mind's quiet word today is that the solution to life's quirks and jerks and otherwise unknowns is already in our body...is carried within it. Our body, we hear, remembers, all...ALL...that has happened to us, that has touched us, traumatized or elated us. That we need...what? to get yet another expert to help us translate all that?
I do not doubt that this new answer got to me around the time I received the prayer, Be it done to me, Lord, according to thy will, and I realized that my life is being done by me according to His will whether I know it or not.
I decided that I can and must hold my nose and take a deeper leap of faith. With which I See Me linked up with ego and free-floating anxiety became a daily visitor...and is welcome to come calling whenever it wants to since I am powerless over that. Ah, but our Father isn't.
God can and does intervene in our life in our behalf...and that's not all, He goes before us to make the crooked places straight.
As I ponder those thoughts this morning, I go into my quiet time, and I feel God's breath around me as I read Eknath Easwaran's "Words to Live By" for June 23: All of us carry a cleansing fire hidden inside. It may be banked...but a spark of the divine is there nonetheless, ready to leap into life. It is nothing less than love of God.
Well now...the perfect win-win. The new "answer" in the wind today is not wrong...it is the same answer that we have now and have ever had. Only the teacher we choose differs.
We can buy a new book, hire a new instructor, join a new study-group...or we can lean more deeply into God who has never failed us. We freely admit we are powerless over our latest fear, hug it, kiss it on the lips, and let it be...and it is no longer ours. Now it is of God...love.
There's our forever instructor...love masquerading as fear to lift us deeper into God.
Thank you.
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