Monday, August 5, 2024

LOVE AND LAUGHTER...GOD'S ALWAYS GIFT

 I am being brought to a deeper consciousness of the invisible Power for good within us that is for our benefit. It seldom seems to our reasoning mind that it is for our good...from our eyebrows up, it seems to be our worst fear...lurking.

CAC teacher James Finley writes in today's Daily Meditation about the childhood trauma inflicted on him and his family by his alcoholic father. That trauma led to his finding his Father within and his spiritual growth leading to him becoming a healer. 

I felt awed as I read it...the end result of his spiritual experiences brought through fear of and pain from the harm inflicted on him and his family is akin to my spiritual experiences brought through fear...free-floating fear, my name for anxiety. 

My personal experience with anxiety began simply with a feeling...a "fear of."  Often, I knew naught of what, I just felt gutbucket fear from my toes to my nose, and my brain would quake as in terror.

For me, too, spiritual growth became my healer...I considered psychiatry and was gifted with the sound advice to give a year to God, to seek spiritual growth for a year, and if I wanted other after a year, fine. 

Spiritual growth became by standard-bearer for which I can never be grateful enough. I have visited a shrink a couple times as I moved along...never got a breakthrough but never regretted being open to the possibility.

As I often note, when I turned 80, my inner life changed...became flashbacks, insights from those flashbacks, sweet memories and mellow might-have-beens. I am learning from each and every one...learning that God lives in the love and laughter of our lives.

To find the love and laughter in our life is to defang our rues, regrets and remorses...they, too, are upgraded by love. 

Ah, the 80s...love 'em and laugh.

Thank you. 

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