ON FINDING OUR SELF IN GOD

The lesson in learning to pray thank you and that is all, is it does not keep any dreaded thing from happening...it brings a sort of peaceful "apprehension," and that becomes our peace. Almost our "Why worry? Be happy!" 

It is peace of mind, of finding our self in God, that keeps us from retrenching and reasserting our correctness as Fr Richard so aptly put it.

The pearl in my life has been the discovery that the dreaded thing du jour, given to God by our thank you, can in time transmute into peace...and that does indeed pass understanding.

I think of a few of the things that I am now at peace with that I once prayed so earnestly for God to remove from me...and how they are the building blocks that changed...are changing...me.

Fear has been the base for my change of mind, thus life.  My blinding flash that nothing turns me to God faster than fear changed my mind about fear. It did not remove fear but I no longer obsessively try to pray it away. 

Pray thank you and feel the grace of gratitude...change your mind, change your life.

Thank you.