WE ARE TURNED AWAY FROM EGO

Father forgive them for they know not what they do. -- Christ Jesus's cry from the Cross.

Father forgive me for I know exactly what I do...and I do it anyway. -- our cry way too often.

My morning blinding flash of the obvious: Both cries, Jesus's and ours, have the same result for God, the Father, cannot not forgive. God, the Father of all, is forgiveness. God is love...how can love not be forgiveness? So we are forgiven...what we must needs remember is a previous admonition: Go and sin no more. Oops.

Here's the hook...old Lucy, my ego, has never met a mystery of God's that she could not use. We must be ever aware of that else we fall into the ego-trap that is so popular today...do what we want and ask forgiveness later. No. Why would we study the Sermon daily and diligently to continue living in self-will? We work with a sincere heart and goal following what is laid out for us in the Sermon (that which makes no common sense at all, may I say) just to selfishly continue serving our ego? No, just no.

At some point, working with God, we are turned away from Lucy's siren to hear our Soul's whisper. Just as, I'm sure, Chief Joseph did when his Soul spoke through him, declaring, "I will fight no more forever." There was a man of God, righteous and holy.

And we all have that Soul within us. We are each and everyone of us righteous and holy. Loose it and let it go. Love it and laugh.

Thank you.