Again I am reminded that there is no God in tomorrow, there is no God in yesterday...there is God in the here and now and that is all.
Same goes with grace. Hoping, praying to have the grace to handle an upcoming (or a long-passed) encounter is wasted breath.
It is not grace we need, it is the will to detach from our ego. The discipline to use the already present will of God within us. To follow the instructions we already have, have been learning...the directions as originally spelled out in the Sermon and honed by God specifically for us, each and every word of which is about ego deflation in depth.
Our life today is all about concerning our self with the care and comfort of others...it must be if we are to rely on the fact that God has our back. We do not need, nor is it beneficial to us, to "stand up for our self," "to take our own part," to "go to the mat" for our self. That is God's job and he does it beautifully when allowed.
Our concern today is to be sure that another shares in that gift...that gift of surrender. We're no longer "in it to win it," but to show forth God in giving over...really, to know God in giving over.
To come to believe these words for my own truth has been the gift of my lifetime. To live them...ah, when do I start?
Thank you.
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