GOD'S WILL, GOD'S WAY...EVER BENEFICIAL

As I awoke this morning, the thought flashed that my friend's experience yesterday was so awful to the material mind that it had to be God's will, God's way. 

Later as I pondered that, it occurred that it would come to be realized as beneficial both materially and spiritually.

As I was reading Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, that thought was enhanced by a quote of his: The power [is] to recognize that there is always another way for the promise to be fulfilled, another way for Divine Love to reach us. 

Over the years I have learned to accept that my solution to a sticky situation will ever seem to be the exact opposite of God's. That's when I learned we can't out-think God and to pray thank you for what is rather than continue to beg for my self-perceived good.

That has become the basis for my spiritual growth. 

Actually, here's the short form of my spiritual growth:  fight tooth and toenail to get my want (self-determined need), lose, drag foot into well-okay-then, find acceptance, commence to preach, cease that and begin to practice, repeat preach/cease/practice until I get it right..."it" being God's will, God's way. 

We know when we are ready to cease squandering our energy on self-will...the Father within takes back the wheel. 

God: Never late, never wrong, ever unexplainably beneficial...for all.

Thank you.