FOR AMERICA...RESIST NOT, PRAY THANK YOU

There is a really deep well inside me. And in it dwells God. Sometimes I am there, too.... Dear God, these are anxious times.... We must help You to help ourselves. And that is all we can manage these days and also all that really matters: that we safeguard that little piece of You, God, in ourselves. -- —Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life 

I continue to feel gobsmacked when I stumble again on Etty Hillesum's An Interrupted Life. To me her story as a Jew in Nazi Germany in the late '30s, early '40s sounds eerily...scarily...like the birthing of our story today. 

There. That is my grateful reminder that nothing turns me to God faster than fear, and comparative thoughts of Nazi Germany then and America today is...fear unthinkable. 

It was fear that led me to my morning practice of giving God my three-minute prayer for America. (I know me...more than three minutes, and I'd begin to harangue God.) 

My prayer consists entirely of Dear God, For America..., and I let God consciousness take it from there. That is my attempt to prove more deeply my belief that God needs no instructions from us, just our trusting belief. 

I believe that God knows the needs of the Universe...has already perfected the outcome, and the outcome is for the benefit of all...no matter how it appears to us. Pray thank You and resist not.

In this time, I suggest some form of public service, volunteerism, mystical reading from the masters, prayer—or, preferably, all of the above. -- Fr Richard Rohr

Thank you.