FREED FROM ME IS FREE

Judgment is the currency of ego; mercy is the currency of the Spirit. --  David Capps, "Sermon on the Mount"

I have read Capps' "Sermon" several times (and I'm still a tish ambivalent about it), yet just this morning, my ear heard the words I read, and I ponder them now.

I find it fairly easy to see judgment as ego's go-to; mercy still sits up above my learnin'...not above my want-to, just above my got-it. Let's just say I feel slightly resistant to the word "mercy"...it gives off a holier-than-thou whiff. Which says more than I want others to know since I don't quite get it yet myself.

Judgment, now...I know judgment. 

I can easily get why and how it is ego's go-to...and I get it because my thoughts can so immediately go to how Generic Gertrude does life wrong, sits in judgment, thinks s/he's better than, etc. The best I've got there is I laugh at myself when I catch me at it.

I read another lift-me-up line this morning...author Debie Thomas wrote, To know God is to unknow God. 

My ain't that the truth? whipped through my mind almost before I finished reading her sentence. 

So, I've got "mercy" and "to unknow God" on my plate this morning. I suspect finding mercy within us is the first step toward unknowing God to know God. 

It is my idea of mercy that I need redress...in both senses of the word. Redress, to set right, and re-dress, to get her a new dress. Who's kidding whom? Any time a word seems too holy, I See Me is doing my thinking again. Redress! Go to God to change my mind, and I'm set right in new thoughts.

There..."mercy" and "to unknow God" are right this minute perking happily, and I need ponder them no further. They'll lead me free when we're ready.

Let go and let God.

Thank you.