GOD IS SO GOOD FOR US

We are all forever beggars before God and the universe. We can never engineer or guide our own transformation or conversion. If we try, it will be a self-centered and well-controlled version of conversion, with most of our preferences and addictions still fully in place, but now well-disguised. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 21, 2024

Everything old is new again...or has that been said before? 

I ponder Fr Richard's quote, and I know it for truth because I have thought, said, preached the same thing for years...probably thinking it was original to me. Another gift to love and laugh with. 

Today is the first anniversary of a friend's death...thinking of you, Cyn 💝. It is also the 112th year of my mother's birth...thinking of you, too, Mom 💖.

I'm also thinking of my best friend from high school...after many years we have reconnected. What a gift! We bounce our latest ache, pain and free-floating anxiety off each other...that helps us to determine if it's just a symptom of being 80+ or if we should visit the doctor. 

When we reach 80 and keep on going/growing, it is a comfort to have a friend our same age...not only to hoot and holler as we revisit fun memories but to help us check out our many new and different ailments...serious? or the 80s? Our personal fix's brand-name...panic-panacea.

Lately, a long-ago BFO is floating in my thoughts...we go to God for God and that is all. There. That's our best panic-panacea. 

God is so good for us.

Thank you.