Set your intention to uncover the jewels buried in the heart of what already is. Choose to see the face of God in the face of the bus driver... Mirabai Starr, Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, September 25, 2024
When I turned 80, I committed to finding the fun in being 80...for sure I had not previously heard a lot of fun-talk about that. This might have put to the test my decision in the early '70s to find a sliver of gold in every good, bad or indifferent life-happening. That decision has set the direction for my life...upward by the downward path. Holy, in a word.
Realization comes neither quickly nor easily...and never by self-will. It can come on tiptoe with the evening breeze or as we are rubbing our tummy on awakening...or whenever the Spirit moves us.
At first we put these pearls down to wishful thinking, but as they become more quietly insistent, our ego begins to take credit. This, too, is part of the process, and we learn to hug it and kiss it and send it on its way.
Today, there is no deep thought involved when a less-than happens in my life...as for instance me scraping the side of my one-week-old car recently. After I said, "What the....?!?!" I said my thank you and was peaced.
I do not need to know God's reasoning, but for the up-lift of it, I like to imagine my payment helping the person who fixes my car...s/he may be financially strapped at the moment, and the payment will come right on time.
The universe responds to your willingness to behold the holy by revealing almost everything as holy. -- Ibid.
Thank you.
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