Earnest prayers and silent entreaties are self-determined objectives that block the perfect objective which is of God. We must seek for nothing but pray thank you for whatever is before us. Just thank you.
The Lord, our Father within, knows our needs...this is our time of proving that. It cannot be proved by our thinking, feeling, doing, being...it is proved by our utter capitulation to the unknown.
The despair of not knowing may well be God in disguise for it bursts forth, often in the presence of the one(s) we've worked so hard to appear "more spiritual than."
The self hits bottom, the Self rises. Is this, then, born again? Without the fanfare and Jumpin' Jehoshaphats?
My 6:00 AM reading validates my 5:00 AM flash: "[Merton] said to stop looking and to begin seeing... Because looking means that you already have something in mind for your eye to find; you’ve set out in search of your desired object and have closed off everything else presenting itself along the way. But seeing is being open and receptive to what comes to the eye…."
Thank you.
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