HOPELESS IS OUR BEST HOPE

God is at home. It is we who have gone out for a walk. -- Meister Eckhart

Yesterday I received my golden goose...I felt hopeless, and I said so to some friends, expecting sympathy at least. I got  nothing...not even "too bad." That sent me down...poor, pitiful, put-upon-me down. 

This morning I knew I had been called again by my long-ago BFO: Hopeless is our best hope for we have nowhere to go but to God.

I often use that thought to help me accept the current political situation, namely, Trump/Musk, and I feel.... Hmm, I'm trying to think of a "spiritual" word for "pissed off," but I only come up with angrier words. 

At least I am aware that anger is loud-mouthed fear, and I am lifted into my go-to thought-prayer. I feel fear, God is near.

Albeit unconsciously, our primary fear is nearly always for our egoic self. Our secondary, or current, fears get our right-now attention, and right now I am feeling fear for America. Fear for the harm that is being done to the consciousness of all of us...U.S.

Thomas Merton wrote that in order to know or understand the will of the Divine, 'we have to participate, in some manner, in the vision of the prophets....' Their wisdom frequently comes from their lived experience on the margins, and, time and time again, they are misunderstood. (From today's Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations.)

There it is...the wisdom of the prophets comes from their less-than experiences...that which we welcome today for it is the road we are walking toward God's will, God's way. 

The how of it is God's secret...which He shares by our living God's will, God's way.

Thank you.