GOD IS IN EVERYTHING...FIND GOD, LIVE HAPPY

In The Book of Joy, Archbishop Desmond Tutu offers this: Dear Child of God, you are loved with a love that nothing can shake, a love that loved you long before you were created, a love that will be there long after everything has disappeared. You are precious, with a preciousness that is totally quite immeasurable. And God wants you to be like God. Filled with life and goodness and laughter—and joy.

Oh mercy...my blinding flash of the obvious: Immediately upon reading that, I intuited that I could have said every word that the Reverend Tutu said...and many times have in my own way and to my bathroom mirror. Really, though, who amongst us hasn't? 

Yet, my blinding flash of the obvious is that I realize this not today. I know it from my eyebrows up. I quote it, teach it, preach it if I'm not silenced...and yet my Soul right now is begging. Seeking comfort. Settling for comfort in knowledge.

Knowledge will never bring holy comfort; it can only bring mental comfort. Not necessarily superior to others...ah, but equal to God, I'm guessing.

Faith in God is said to bring inner comfort that we are protected no matter what comes or appears to come. Slowly I am realizing that faith is our acceptance of our reasoning mind's interpretation of God's will as we walk through it (hard, ain't it hard, Lord, loving you) vs. constantly praying that this be lifted...let this cup pass us by, etc. 

We walk through our material-world interpretation and, when God has us ready, we know joy at a whole new level. It takes some getting settled into...and that, too, is when we're doing it right.

I feel it, just not 100 percent...and the percentage bounces like a red rubber ball. Oh, joy comes with the upward bounce. We can make it joy on the downward bounce, too, as we are readied for the upward bounce! God is in everything...find him and live happy!

Thank you.