ACHIEVE NOTHING, RECEIVE EVERYTHING

All we need remember is the promise: 'Be not afraid...it is I.'

What if that is true? That, literally, all we need remember is the promise: 'Be not afraid...it is I.' 

Remembering is the promise, but the doing is the hard part...the be not afraid part...doing that is the stone we need to roll away. Doing it by believing it. Believing it by living it. Living it...what would that look like? 

Say, fear comes creeping into our consciousness, would we immediately turn our fear thoughts to God, not with an abject please-prayer, but with a grateful thank you-prayer? And we would need to mean it. 

We have learned to pray thank you almost continuously, even when anxiety comes around, but we've never imagined in the moment, our anxiety wearing the Robe. There be the rub.

Oh wait...this is a blinding flash of the obvious! This is God-gifted for our spiritual growth. 

This be our 2025 walking orders...when, not if, fear comes calling, to pray thank you gratefully. To honestly welcome the fear for our spiritual sustenance...continuing to prove more deeply that nothing turns us to God faster than fear.

Having no idea where to start, we can know we're on the right road for just this morning, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation promised the answer: This is something we can only fall into and receive—and nothing that we can achieve, which utterly humiliates the ego, the willful, and all overachievers.

God loves us so much.

Thank you.