THE MIND ALONE WILL NEVER GET US THERE

The bottom line is that everybody has enough. *** Trying to understand it with your mind, you’ll never get it.... Cynthia Bourgeault, "Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation," June 11, 2026

When I read "everybody has enough," my head, my heart my Soul shouted Amen! That I have enough has for a long time now been my mental safety net. 

Back in the '80s when I had what I call the care and feeding of the IRS, I intuitively knew that I had enough, would always have enough. I knew I could and would be able to feed and house my beloved dog and me...and I did not know that by the evidence in my bank account which was reading zero. 

I did get through that period without needing to beg, borrow or steal. I had a job, I made the deal the IRS presented, and I was moved on to my next level...learning the art of spiritual love. Or, learning to feel love for others when the response feels less that loving. 

I can see...but cannot yet do without serious effort...the need is to take nothing personally. Acceptance in a word. 

As Bourgeault wrote, Trying to understand it with your mind, you’ll never get it.

Thank you.

TO FIND OUR FATHER WITHIN, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of June 30, 2018,]

What if Donald Trump is our Saul of Tarsus? As in Saint Paul before his involuntary conversion.

What if that's you and me? What if we're all Saul, rigid, righteous and right, before involuntary or voluntary conversion? According to me, some of us crash and burn leaving no place to turn but to a power greater than ourselves; some of us are born seeking a higher power and some just stumble onto it. It makes no never mind how we get there, get there we must...again, according to me.

Will we open our mind to the possibility of it?...to the possibility that we are Trump in disguise...or Pruitt...or Hillary! Are we willing to find within our own self that part of them we are repulsed by, to seek for that identity in order to release it...loose it and let it go...and find our Father within?

Until we do, we will be tied to our own repugnant thoughts...calling our own thoughts Trump, Pruitt, Hillary, et al. 

Those thoughts will grow...but we won't.

Thank you.

A LITTLE HAND MIRROR, I

[The following is a reprint of my blog of November 21, 2012.]

So I'm talking with God this morning, and He says, "I'll tell you what you need...you need a little hand mirror to carry with you at all times. That way you'll always be able to see immediately and exactly who and what your problem is."

That was such a good idea that I immediately thought of all the people I needed to give a little hand mirror to....

Thank you.

ON BEING...JUST BE

[Spiritual growth] is all about being who you are....here’s the first step: Know who you are. Be who you are. Be the person God created you to be. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 5, 2026

I go to God for God, and that is all keeps playing in my mind. I received that as a blinding flash of the obvious a while back. It plays in and through me regularly...for which I am grateful.

The fact of the matter though...I go to God with thank You the majority of the time. There's my comfort... knowing I have turned me over to the care of our Father which art in Heaven. 

Leaving me there is my spiritual growth. 

Thank you.

A BLINDING FLASH OF THE OBVIOUS, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 2, 2025.]

Know this: Our problem is never the named thing; it is fear of the named thing. -- 8/24/24 BFO

That blinding flash of the obvious was the Spirit's gift to me on my anniversary in 2024.

I posted it then; I posted it again as noted, and I post it now. Clearly, I love it.

Thank you.

THE GIFT OF GRATITUDE, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of June 29, 2017.]

Today my plan is to take a risk...a personal, inside, no-big-deal-to-you-but-huge-to-me risk.

As I opened my "God Calling," the words with God all things are possible were there before me. It just so happens that seemingly every time I have a challenge to meet, those words are given to me, and sometimes from the most unlikely places.

It's not surprising I'd find them in "God Calling" but on this particular day with no preplan or thought? When in doubt, assume the best is my mantra...my risk just transmuted into God's will which makes it feel less risky. Thank you, Lord.

Now, even if my action turns out less than wonderful to my ego's eyes, I can know God's hand was in it...meaning, there will be bennies. I'll get to sit and wait on the Lord.

If the results are close enough to wonderful, I'll have the gift of gratitude to wrap me in...no better feeling.

God is so good to me.

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.