ON THE ART OF BEING STILL

First, we must learn to be quiet, the art of being still must be practiced. -- Howard Thurman in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today. 

Newly on my mind yet again, my need for calm, is the subject of Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today. This is God-guidance to me, and I feel graced.

As I stayed in bed this morning, half awake, I heard me whispering "Be peaced...calm...get calm." I could feel my anxiety still on high alert, and I welcomed my angels' quiet words, "be peaced." 

This period of time in America's history invites high anxiety. Personally, I wonder if this isn't God's will, God's way, bringing us back to the need to help return America to her original ideals, welcoming your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. 

It has been too long since we, the just-plain-folks, have felt free to welcome others to God's healing land-of-plenty-and-pass-it-on. Not just to give money, which too few of us have an over-abundance of, but to give a helping hand, a kind word of care and concern, to a stranger in need. Or to accept that help from a stranger when we are in need...ah, there be the rub, as the old saying goes.

I once had a blinding flash that the bum on the streetcorner begging was God giving us the golden opportunity to share...to share love, and a warm smile qualifies. 

Maybe that's what we have here today...in all the conflicts around the world, in America's daily drama and trauma, in our own daily frets, we have the love of God for us to pass on.

Here's our old lesson relearned: Whatever is, is God's will, God's way, i.e., the mirror-image of our will, our way, or the veritable opposite of the material mind's view. 

I still take comfort in the first words of the 23rd Psalm: The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.

If we shall not want, we have enough...we shall never not have enough with the Lord as our Shepherd. Having enough, we can pass it on...keep the spiritual supply chain open...growing by flowing.

God is so good to us.

Thank you.