WALK FORWARD UNASHAMED OF OUR FEAR

I find myself today relying on the many quotes I have stored and truisms I have memorized to get me through these, my dark...or less than light...days. And I am reminded, thank you, Father, that it is not the words I memorize, it is my actions stemming from those words that can and will lighten my fretting mind.

My most recent that I am clinging to today is a Teilhard quote (and I don't even know how to pronounce his name):

Ah, you know it yourself, Lord, * * * on certain days the world seems a terrifying thing: huge, blind, and brutal. . . . At any moment the vast and horrible thing may break in through the cracks—the thing which we try hard to forget is always there, separated from us by a flimsy partition: fire, pestilence, storms, earthquakes, or the unleashing of dark moral forces—these callously sweep away in one moment what we had laboriously built up and beautified with all our intelligence and all our love.

Since my human dignity, O God, forbids me to close my eyes to this . . . teach me to adore it by seeing you concealed within it.

There it is...my today's marching order: Let myself be taught to adore every dark corner conjured up in my mind by seeing my Father concealed within it. Reminder to me: A thank you will suffice (so said Meister Eckhart).

God loves us so much that he protects us from nothing...he need protect us from nothing. He lives within/without, and as we walk forward toward the feared abyss, we walk unashamed of our fear thus with courage and love, an all-encompassing love of Self.

Thank you.