SNARK IS SILENCED BY LOVE

I love it so much when my meditation, my "God Calling" and my Fr. Richard Rohr readings all speak the same message to me.

This morning my meditation began with my thoughts of an e-mail from a friend that I got yesterday. The e-message ran right along the edge of snark, and I was pondering how to lovingly return to sender. Thankfully, God directed my attention elsewhere...he's clever like that.

After my meditation, I picked up my "God Calling," and there was a note I wrote to me on this date in 2005: When I am thinking of 'loving' words to say to set anyone straight, I am living in my reasoning mind.

That note reminded me that when I'm trying for loving thoughts to think or loving words to say in order to set someone straight, I'm stuck in my ego-victory mind. My ego Lucy calls it praying but who's kidding whom? The end result is the teller of the tale...resistance is not ever going to be about still more spiritual growth, and setting another straight is resistance plain and simple.

Then I went to Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," and the first thing I read was: Abba Poemen said, 'Teach your mouth to say what is in your heart.'

There's my answer...we go to our heart for loving thoughts and words. Our heart is that space within where stillness lives so that God can make himself heard. And snark is silenced by love.

Thank you.