I SHALL NOT WANT, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of June 30, 2020.]

A worldview of enoughness will predictably emerge in us as we realize our naked being in God instead of thinking that more of anything or more frenetic doing can fill up our infinite longing and restlessness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 30, 2020

Meditating on the 23rd Psalm is an ever-changing lifting up within me. I suspect I knew from my eyebrows up when I started my journey taking care of the IRS that the phrase I shall not want would be my base for a peaceful mind. Ah, but it is by looking back that I realize its truth.

Now that I am able to see the whole pattern, I realize how I got through that so basically unruffled...it being a given that anxiety has ever been my go-to tool. (I call it my BFF for it is anxiety that sends me to God quick, fast and in a hurry, so how can I hate it?)

The fact that after the opening words, The Lord is my Shepherd, comes I shall not want tells me now how important those words were then, are now. I shall not want means I have enough...I shall never not have enough as long as I know and show by my living, the Lord is my Shepherd.

Follow the Lord, kill self now...all those words and phrases that we often read just to get beyond them...then learn by rote just to quote...are truth and must be lived. The more we just quote them the less they mean to us personally.

We must live them and be quiet about it for it is in our living...not talking, not thinking...that we realize our naked being in God.

Thank you.