TO LIVE AN UNSELFED LIFE

This very morning I heard a newscaster quote his grandmama as always saying, "The battle is the Lord's."

I could only be amazed that I was amazed...I have heard that for like ever, yet it hit me in my head, my heart and my gut all at the same time. I knew it to be true for our teeny-tiniest worry or our most significant dread...makes no never mind. The battle, our very life, is the Lord's. From birth until three days after we're dead.

That's what makes life so interesting, I reckon. We just will not let that be just as it stands. Gotta worry it, organize it, change it, up- and/or downgrade it, fret it, manage it, ponder it...all the while looking for somebody to blame for the unintended consequences of our own manipulation and control. (I call that the Big MAC award...I own it, might as well name it.)

In life's learning process, we cannot just "let that be" without getting in the midst of it for that is life's learning process. That's why we have spiritual principles...to guide us, once our way slaps us upside the head once too often, to learn to live an unselfed way.

Ah, there's the pearl beyond price...to live the unselfed way is to align our will with God's will. According to me, this is taking the slow train to Paradise. Emphasis on "slow" if we're doing it right.

Thank you.