In Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today, he writes of God as pure love...sweet, kind, considerate, lovable and generous (my interpretation)...yet that some think of God as a harsh task master.
I gratefully and finally accept the God of my understanding is Love...that whatever less-than-wonderful happening within me is of God and, therefore, love. The less-than feeling indicates my need is to change my mind...in short, upgrade attitude, downgrade problem.
It is always our perception that is in need of upgrading...accept God as ever-present love, and any less-than we perceive is our seeing, not God being.
Believing this holds me up when I do (and I do) perceive, feel, see, think less-than-wonderful happening...in short, when I am in fear.
I feel fear, God is here.
There's the signal for a mental U-bie...or our "welcome" cantata to fight not nor flee, but to welcome with thank you. Then we need to prove God, love, is here...within us, without us...going before us to make the crooked places straight.
The blinders fall...proving God is painful! Which is no wonder...we are disproving ego's power.
We realize anxiety as our self-selected choice for God to use to bring us out of self into Self. We can choose anger or self-pity or arrogance...there are unlimited less-thans...the pure gift is our realizing unto accepting that our bane is our choice.
God love works for our benefit always and with whatever we are willing to give up. Acceptance is our inner recognition that it is God who does the realizing through us, it is not ours to work out.
Whole new realization of give over, give up, give in...it is not ours to do, it is ours to let flow from us as the done-deed it is.
Thank you.
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