We can experience joy, love, and beauty on this planet, even as it changes around us. To do this, we have to build personal and collective resilience—an ability to find equanimity in unpredictable times and as the suffering around us increases. We do this not by avoiding the Long Dark but by facing it, moving with it.... authors LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis Reau, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, May 15, 2024
I read the above quote and felt peaced. I had just written in my journal that my bane and boon, anxiety, is with me this morning. It came in the middle of last night, and I resisted it not. This morning I feel blessed to be living the continuing rough and ready road to enlightenment. It is fear that taught me I am that I am, the Father and I are one. There...perfect peace.
The good news...to still feel fear. Again, nothing turns us to God faster than fear, and I was comforted. I prayed Thank You, and grew deeper through Necessary Suffering.
I laughed that my first thought...still...was Oh, No, take this fear away! I invite that to be my first thought three days after I am dead for I'll still be turning to God.
Thank you.
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