Non-violence is the greatest and the most active force in the world.... One person who can express Ahimsa in life exercises a force superior to all the forces of brutality. —Mohandas Gandhi, Harijan, March 14, 1936 -- Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, September 19, 2024 [Note for me because I keep forgetting: Ahimsa is the ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings.]
I became a believer in the teachings of Gandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., et al., long before I could walk those teachings. I memorized the words, quoted them, and I knew myself blessed for knowing I was connecting with them deeper than intellectually...that I was heading in the right direction because that knowing was purely a gift from God.
This morning, I was given the quiet-time gift of acceptance...that I am no longer the rank beginner that I think of myself. The rest of that gift is knowing that the decision was made for me when, without conscious effort, I resisted not a spiritual effort of mine being voted down. I inner loved and laughed...which I only realized in looking back. It all happened outside my conscious effort.
I note this for my own self...if, in good conscious, I can no longer hide as a rank beginner, that means I must turn my reasoning mind away from peace in silence toward peace in nonresistant action.
Huh?
Geez...I do not know what nonresistant action looks like, even means...or, the word without the bark on it, how it can be done begun by me.
All of these thoughts originated this morning in my quiet time, and I'm borderline sorry I've written them down...once they are in black and white, they are out of their hidey-hole, now inviting or mocking...only I can choose.
The hoary fact is whichever I choose becomes my new mindset's way of life...or my old ways trying to look pretty.
OH...blinding flash: It is not mine to choose...the Father within has already chosen, made the change, is right now leading me free.
God is so good to us.
Thank you.
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