It's amazing to me how many spiritually enlightened, unheralded but enlightened, people I come across daily. Those who show forth a spiritual light from within. People who live a simple life...a giving-over, non-judging, loving life.
I stand in awe.
I study, I ponder, I do my quiet time, I read spiritual books, I laugh a lot and love more than I ever dreamed that I even wanted to, and I know I'm the Grandma Moses of spiritual growth...stick figures and crayons are uptown to me.
Yet, I am blessed with the friendship of a man who, among so many other things, runs marathons with others welfare on his mind (which reminds me of the old spiritual, "When He Was On the Cross, I Was On His Mind").
Then there's my friend, the born-and-raised Catholic lady, who joined a Methodist church because she was so taken with and wanted to participate in its social welfare program...a program of feeding the poor, of tending to those in need.
Truly, I stand in awe.
There's my beloved friend, the retired Navy captain, who has a health hiccup right now. He is so free that he laughs and/or cries as the spirit moves him at the good he has been blessed with. All who know him know right well that his life has been blessed with good because he walks with sunshine or, more like, sunshine walks with him.
I may feel like the Grandma Moses of spiritual growth but that's close enough to perfect for me. Close enough for me to know I need more, I want more...and may not get there till three days after I'm dead, but I'm heading in the right direction.
I know I am blessed because the marathon man, the social-welfare lady, the Navy captain, et al., are in my life purely and simply because they want to be. YOW-zer!
I stand in we.
Thank you.
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