GOD'S CLARION CALL

Face each day with Love and Laughter. Face the storm. -- "God Calling," May 12

In 1990 I underlined that sentence in red and understood it (from my eyebrows up anyhow) to be the Way.

When reading that again this morning, I was lifted by the rest of the entry: Joy, Peace, Love, My great gifts....Any soul can feel those in a harbor, but real joy and victory comes to those alone who sense these when they ride a storm.

I was brought up short by the memory that the only way there is through love. The answer to everything...the way out of self...is love. And love is nonresistance plain and simple.

There will ever be storms in life. Fight them, curse them, try to avoid them...that is the certain path to lonely despair. A just as certain path to despair is to deny the storms...calling a storm a ray of sunshine is self-will at its most extreme. As the book says, "Face the storm." 

Real joy comes to those who sense the peace that passes understanding "when they ride a storm."

According to me, riding the storm is to feel the fear, wish it were sunshine, remind God he's got the power, and he can use it anytime, please and thank you. Then move forward doing the next apparently right thing.

There. That's the God of my understanding's clarion call.

Thank you.