LOVE, LAUGH AND GET OVER YOURSELF

We no longer have anything to prove or protect, so we can let go and surrender to Reality/God, which are now experienced as the same thing.  Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," 12/20/14

Now there's an old idea put into a new concept to me...reality and God as the same thing. And my ego immediately goes, "Well, what do you think you've been learning all these years? How dense are you?"

The good news is I have been learning all these years, and the most important thing I've learned is to let my ego say whatever it wants...I have ceased fighting. Right behind that most important thing, and the key to its importance, is: Love and laugh. That's takes both the sting and the self-importance out of the ego's words.

Immediately after having my uplifting talk with me, I happened to glance into my foyer. My beloved Ruckus had peed there...on the marble foyer. I neither loved nor laughed. All the while I'm cleaning up and having a real hissy fit, Ruckus is sitting there looking at me with adoring eyes. I had to hug him.

As I hugged him, I thought, "There. That's the answer...whatever is coming at you, pee on the marble or rose petals on the wind, look at it with adoration.  And adoration will be returned."

At least in my dog's world.

Thank you.