Thursday, June 1, 2023

THE GRACE OF GRATITUDE...NO ONE-SHOT DEAL

Those who have gone to their depths uncover an indwelling Presence. It is a deep and loving 'yes' inherent within us. ... This True Self still must be awakened and chosen. The Holy Spirit is given equally to all; but it must be received, too. ... The Holy Spirit is never created by our actions or behavior; it is naturally indwelling, our inner being with God. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, June 1, 2023

Well, there it is. The essence of my troubled mind...the source of my fearful discontent...apparently is that I do not dare to wholly believe. I See Me in my egoic mind blocks my "feeling" it even though I know it to be true. 

That I know yes, i.e., acceptance, is the answer to all my woes, assures me that I do know it for true. My holdback is that I am forgetting...or am I egoically discounting?...my early abundance of tears and fears that eventually and inevitably worked together for my good. My good by way of surrender transformed into acceptance.  

I do not feel I have gone to my depths and uncovered an indwelling Presence. Yet, looking back over the years, I realize my depths in all my tears and fears...it is they that represent my "widow's (old maid's) mite," i.e., my all. 

Flash...not feeling is the material mind's hold...reason giving precedence over spiritual. Comes the gift, the realized truth that this True Self still must be awakened and chosen....but it must be received, too. 

Thoughts being redirected: God, in my fearful discontent, revealed that I am in the process of receiving being awakened and chosen. Humbled, I recognize a work in progress, not a one-shot deal.

I am graced with gratitude.

Thank you.

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