HUGS...HUGS!...CAN LEAD US TO GOD

A long-ago yet ever-new blinding flash of the obvious: 'Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me'...thy rod and thy staff are love and laughter.

This love and laughter reminder comes to me today just as hugs...hugs!...are leading me to a deeper place, higher.

I was not a "huggie" person back in the day, but in truth none of us were...we shook hands. Came the day when hugs tiptoed in to snuggle up within...and it seemed to me that everybody was hugging. I was feeling left out because...well, because that was me being me.

My strong suit, I am teachable, came to my aid, and I started hugging with the rest and the best of them. 

Now...here comes another "when I turned 80" story...I am beginning to notice I am not getting hugs...for no obvious reason. Everybody is as friendly as ever, as welcoming...just not hugging. Fortunately, I have learned, and I do live the lesson: When puzzled, put-upon, hurt, angry, shamed, fearful, look within. The solution to any me problem starts within me.

No hugs? Am I retreating? No...just returning to my natural state. This may be the reason my special meeting friends are in my life. For my deeper realization or for theirs? For both or for all of us? 

Yes...just yes.

When I felt the others withdrawing and going elsewhere, my first inclination was to immediately grab each in a bear hug...only that is still a self-determined objective. I saw that I needed to let hugs come to me as I needed them...I being for the benefit of everyone. Each of us has our own benefit...the end result of which is to unconsciously give love to others in order to receive it. 

Hugs may be just another step up in consciousness...albeit a most important step up. I stand on it as I am moved up to the next level...of which I am ignorant. The conscious mind retires as consciousness is raised higher, and here comes trust loving and laughing.  

I journaled all of the above as it came to me this morning, after which I read in God Calling, "You do not make yourself loving and strong and patient and humble. You live with Me, and then My life accomplishes the miracle-change."

Do not tell me God isn't with me, within me, doing for me exactly what I need in the very instant. You, too!

God is so good to us.

Thank you.

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My "new" 80s way of thinking is on the job! My consciousness is being raised