CLAIM OUR OWN AND REAP GOD'S WILL

Effective light does not call attention to itself; rather, it lights up the world…. Any faith that does not manifest itself in works is not faith; it is complacency and self-satisfaction. -- Amy-Jill Levine, Daily Meditation, January 2, 2025  

I am reminded of a long-ago friend's belief; namely, faith without works is fantasy.

That saying has been visiting my thoughts off-and-on recently. I finally stopped long enough to let it speak fully to me, and I realized that it is my self-described "80s" that is doing the nattering. As I have mentioned, when I turned 80, I experienced an entire change in my thinking, feeling, doing...being. 

The gift of change is the choice I was given...love and laugh with hitting 80 or roll around in the self-pity of being 80, i.e., old, used up, no good, etc., ad nauseum. I chose then and continue to choose love and laugh.  

So I love and laugh and learn even more. For instance, I learned the word "works" flips on my guilt switch. My egoic guilt lives to shower shame and thus gets its reward with more guilt. (Just for giggles, I call it gilted guilt.)

Here's God's way for me...since I now know the gift of spiritual communication, I am freely available to listen to anyone in need who reaches out to me. I silently acknowledge God's will so my feedback is (mostly) egoless, and the majority of the time the listener's thinking is upgraded.

We each are given God-gifts. All we need do is claim our own...with thank You.

God is so good to us.

Thank you.