GOD'S HAND IS IN IT

Those who have never allowed themselves to fall are actually off balance, while not realizing it at all. That is why they are so hard to live with. Please think about that for a while. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditations," August 19.

There is a human answer and a spiritual answer to everything. Often it is the same answer. Each has its own path, and we must decide which path we choose to take.

Our life's journey is determined by the choice we make. If we choose the human answer (our reasoning mind), our intellect will guide us...and there are more than many who successfully live by that choice.

If we choose the spiritual path...resist not, give up fighting, love your enemy as yourself...we will learn the art of finding peace by living peace.

I have found this way to be challenging in the extreme because my ego-victory mind cannot not legislate for itself...and it is my job always to turn it and me toward spiritual principles. That is why it is so important to live an un-self-guarded life...long ago I was told "Showing your butt is also spiritual." I can't imagine anybody ever showed his butt without believing she was in the right.

It is when we find ourselves in the wrong and looking less than wonderful into the bargain that we realize that God's hand is in it. And God's hand cannot be in it while we're maintaining control, or just think we are. This is the ultimate letting go.

The reasoning mind cannot comprehend that in order to know peace fully we must go beyond reason to love.

Thank You.