BLESSED BEYOND THE MIND'S IMAGINING

I do not believe that sin is the enemy we often make it out to be, at least not when we recognize it and name it as such. When we see how we have turned away from God, then and only then do we have what we need to begin turning back. Sin is our only hope, the fire alarm that wakes us up to the possibility of true repentance. -- Author Barbara Brown Taylor, "Daily Meditation," March 10, 2026

The inner meaning of the Taylor quote is the insight I was gifted with way back when, i.e., wrong is not the enemy...wrong is what turns us around to go for right, a.k.a., God.

That blinding flash has been developing within me ever since...and is still developing me.

When we get stuck in the remorses of our self-described "wrong," we rarely find God's will, or acceptance of that which is gifted us. 

My early life took me down the dark hole into the anonymous light of God. There I learned to find the good in the bad appearing...there God awaits.

My life today...now in my 80s...is my pearl beyond price. 

I do not have many of the "things" I prayed for back in the day, i.e., money, a man, money. No, but I do have the pearls beyond price, i.e., peace of mind, love for others, the God of my own understanding. 

I am blessed beyond the mind's imagining.

Thank you. 

PEACE OF MIND BRINGS PEACE ON EARTH

We have ceased fighting everything and everybody. -- Anonymous

Comes the light! 

We realize unto acceptance that the "fight" begins in our head...in our thinking...in our first resistant thought.

The need to cease resisting everything and everybody is but a beginning. Now the thought must be raised up into action. 

Our choice is not to resist but to overcome...to overcome "my way" thoughts, not to ignore for others to deal with but to overcome within using the Sermon as our guide. 

We no longer opt to set others straight. By grace and by God, all sides are lifted into the God space where all are in agreement...God's will, God's way. 

With God's will, God's way leading us out of self, we find peace of mind...thus, peace on earth.

Thank you.

OUR CHANGED LIFE IS GOD'S GIFT

....a whole new set of behaviors and lifestyle will emerge. It is not that if I am righteous, then I will be loved by God; rather, I must first come to experience God’s love and then I will—almost naturally—be righteous. -- paraphrase of "Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation," March 7, 2026

From my own experience, I believe "to experience God's love," we must experience the mess of our own making. We must crash and burn which we have so arduously been attempting to avoid...by denial mostly.

There is no God in denial...there is, however, an invitation to God to come save us from our self.

There it is...God's gift to the down-and-out: Realization unto admission unto acceptance of our utter powerlessness, and Help! is born.

The beginnings of faith is trust. In trust, we go to God for God, that is all...and unknowingly we are healed. Our changed life is our daily proof.

Thank you.

RADICAL UNITY: GIVE...ONLY GIVE

Radical unity with God and neighbor is the only way any of us truly heals or improves. -- Fr Richard Rohr, 'Daily Meditations,'' March 2, 2026   

Give over, give up, give in. There...the blinding flash of the obvious that came to me some years back.

I have been open to learning how to do that (to give, only give) ever since. By open, I do not mean I have actually achieved it. I mean I have been gifted on occasion, and I remain willing to continue to try for it. to receive it.

I know I cannot, of myself, do that, give only give, but that we can. With God as our guide and goal, we can and do practice giving. "All" that is required of us is that we be willing to try. 

God's gift of insight: We are not in it to win it; we are in it to give it. Ah, we can only give what we have earned with God as our teacher, leader, guide and goal.

The underlying wonderment: We have given over, given up, given in on occasion...and not realized it until sometime later. It cannot be a self-determined objective; it is God's gift plain and simple.

We "win" when our reasoning mind is into regrets, and we realize spiritual peace...both at the same time.  There: radical unity.

Thank you.

GOD CONSCIOUSNESS FROM WITHIN

My morning gift of consciousness:

Some of our biggest mistakes come when we are trying really hard to do God's will...only we have self-determined, without asking, what God's will is, and we are not even close to the Truth.

We willingly accept something we don't even want, calling it God's will when in truth God doesn't want/need it either. 

Lessons we learn: Stay open, keep an open mind, invite God's will to flow freely in consciousness--"to do with me and to build of me as Thy will. Thy will, not mine, be done."

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Thank you.

TO KNOW LOVE, SOW LOVE

An invaluable living-tool which I have earned is the gift of welcoming...looking back with my mind full of love and laughter...no regrets.

There's a line in the song "Loving Arms" which describes too well my once-lived attitude about life in general, i.e., looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains....

I doubt not I have written about this...probably recently...but that attitude has been upgraded by God, and I live with a new perspective on life...a happy perspective.

Now, it's looking back and laughing in freedom from my chains...or my rues, regrets and remorses. Those three r's once ruled my thoughts, my feelings, my life.

My upgraded attitude has grown slowly but ever upward on the winding road of still more spiritual growth. Awakening to the fact that my life is not about me, it's about letting go and letting God...for the benefit of others.

The great and glorious discovery has been that when we live our life for the benefit of others, we know peace, love and joy. Which, in order to keep, we freely give away.

God loves us sooo much.

Thank you.

IN TRUST, DO...THEN JUDGE NOT

I am still heading in the right direction whether I know remember it or not!

My memory is in God's care, too...trust and judge not.

There...henceforth, mine to do daily: trust and judge not. 

Like most directions, easy words to say, but the doing is the hidden gift. To do is mine to give my thank You for as I do the next thing. And if the next thing I choose to do is not the right thing, we've got that covered, too.   

If it's not the right thing, promptly admit it. 

We can now do the next thing that appears to us...right or wrong, we are aiming in trust in a new direction. 

Trust God, and move out of self. It is to trust...ah, we are to trust.

Thank you.