DE-HEADED BY GOD. I

I[The following is a reprint of my post of September 18, 2015.]

Blinding flash of the obvious: Atheists call it "whatever;" theists call It "God."

There is a fine line between those two...take, for instance, pain.

There are those who resist the very idea of pain, of suffering ever for any reason. There are hospitals, mental wards, drug and alcohol rehab facilities...churches!...filled with our kind. We will go to any length to avoid the possibility of our own idea of suffering.

Then there are those of us whose sole goal is to seek still more spiritual growth. When we first hear that the path to God is through pain, we resist...mightily. But, having no choice, we find as we go forward that our suffering is self-inflicted...it is the pain of ego-reduction in depth.

Too often our fear of pain is our imagining the pain of being beheaded by Isis when in fact we are being de-headed by God. The gift of grace through humility is our reward.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain, there is no lover who is not also a martyr. -- Heinrich Suso

Thank you.

ON WALKING THROUGH FEAR IN FAITH, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 29, 2019.]

Blinding flash of the obvious (as I asked to be relieved of the bondage of self): I must release You from my bondage of self.

It was a great gettin' up morning when I realized that for myself, fear is God in camouflage for nothing turns me to God faster than fear.

The hook, however, is that fear is not lifted. We must walk through our personal fear to God. Ah, but we do not feel the fear as we are walking through for He goes before us making the crooked places straight.

It is I; be not afraid. - John 6:20

Thank you.

ON BEING HEADED HIGHER

 It is more spiritual growth plain and simple that informs our decisions. Trying to spiritually educate our ego is an ego-trip trap...the egoic mind legislates for itself only. (From a previous post.)

As I read that this morning, I realized that is where my thinking has dropped me. I have been wrapped around my ego...trying to spiritualize it, I reckon. 

It is to laugh...I only love it. 

Given half a chance, my ego and I will dig in until we hit pay dirt...God's will, God's way: The Ever Right Answer that we are trying to either improve or disprove. Also known as giving God a grin.

Primarily, that is how my spiritual education has come...from doing it wrong so God could turn me around, head me aright.

According to me, there are no mistakes...only God-gifts that we need to head us toward higher ground. 

God is so good to us...God is so good.

Thank you.

WE ARE NEVER ALONE...THANK YOU, FATHER

 I am beginning my next life-change journey...my last if I'm doing it right.

I am in the process of accepting that I must move from my condo where I have lived for 27 years. I have decorated it to my liking (no easy do) and believed I would die from here. But then I never dreamed I'd live this long...I thought I'd survive to 80 at the latest. 

Well, I hit that flatfoot running and am still going with no known problems. Talk about the good news looking sorry...like me now, pushing 90, still healthy, and all family, friends and neighbors gone to a retirement home or to Heaven. 

SO...it is coming on time for me to move feet, not to mention body and particularly head. Head is resisting. Mightily. It's not fair is a favorite of Head's.

God is so good to me...it is times like these, when I am singing the blues, that God shows me love by reminding me that I am not alone...have never been alone and will never be alone. 

The Father within us carries us 24/7...whether we know it or not. I do know it...I misremember on occasion, but He has my back, slips a hug in, and I'm good to go. 

God is our ever-burning light...we are never alone, we go to God for God, and that is all...for that is all.

Thank. you. 

NO RESISTANCE, NO PROBLEM, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of September 1, 2019.}

Giving of our physical, mental, and emotional resources isn’t usually ego-affirming, but it is a path toward holiness. It’s not what you do that makes you holy. It’s what you allow to be done to you that makes you holy. - Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 23, 2019

It is what we allow to be done to us for the benefit of others that is the hidden message. The hidden message is the forever message.

The unwritten message of the entire Sermon on the Mount is: We do these things for the benefit of others, for we are God's representative on this earth, and we are dealing with God's representative on this earth. Be ye therefore perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect.

This earth is God's proving ground; we are each God's image, each given free will, each being made perfect with the free will of each dictating our terms. Everything happens by invitation only. The sooner we loose it and let it go, the sooner we are freed from the tether of our own will.

All, of course, according to me.

Thank you.

I AM THE BEING OF ALL SAINTS, ALL SINNERS. I

[The following is a reprint of my post of August 9, 2020.]

Blinding flash of the obvious: I am the wolf stalking the night...I am the skunk stinking up the place.

Thoughts flow: I am the wolf stalking the night...I am the skunk stinking up the place. I am the lion whose roar reverberates across the Serengeti...I am the jackal doing the dirt, carrying the water.
I am the soul of my most revered saint, I am the conscience of my most resented enemy...I am the Being of all the saints and sinners in between.

Parents, siblings, friends, enemies, The Church, the employer, lost loves...none get the credit, none get the blame...for each is the wolf stalking the night, the skunk stinking up the place...just as I am.

I Am that I Am.

Thank you.

WE CAN NEVER NOT HAVE GOD, I

[The following is a slightly reworked reprint of my post of August 30, 2013.]

We must be willing to give up getting...but if our objective in giving up is to get, we deny ourselves for there is no God in self-determined objectives.

Our main life objective once was to get God.

That is a reasoning-mind objective and cannot be achieved because we already have God. We cannot not have God. God lives in us, within us.

As we realize that, we have All.

Thank you.