GOD...THE GIFT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE

My morning wake-up gift was the quote that simplifies and magnifies for me the God of my understanding's how-to manual: Your best chance, as I see it, is to try not to be as mean as you feel like being, and not to give yourself airs, and to hope for the best. From the genius of Henry Mitchell as printed in his column in 1988 in the Washington Post. 

From that came my p.d.q. spiritual principle: Just try not to be as nasty as you want to be...which has been my "golden rule" since first I read the original quote. 

That brought with it this morning another favorite quote, this one anonymous: All my problems can be solved by spiritual principles. 

We recall the old gold: We go to God for  God and that is all...ever re-re-recalling that we already have any/every thing we can think of to pray for. The turnaround is ever the recognition that it is not the egoic want but the spiritual nature of the egoic want that is God's gift for us. 

Our continuing task is to discipline ourself to turn runaway thoughts back to that spiritual reality. Or, to quote from Fr Richard this morning,  to fan into flame the gift that we already have.

Thank you.