ON GOING BEYOND REASON

It came to me this morning that life itself is the Way of the Cross. Especially when we think of that way as going beyond reason to love.

The reasoning mind is a necessary stepping stone and that is all. That is all it was ever meant to be, a stepping down place to a higher consciousness. If we stay hunkered down on that stone, we stay hunkered down in our life...self-protected, looking for the win, fearing a loss.

To go deeper to that higher place, we must come to rely on a personal power for good (keep it simple, call it "God"). We begin to realize that we must go beyond taking anything personally. We "see" that which seems wrong, unacceptable to us, is our very own.

If we're doing life right, there will be many and many more rocks, ditches, cliffs and mountains for us to meet and greet. On first look, through our reasoning mind's eye, we will wonder how we are ever going to get up, down, over and/or around this (which, to that same reasoning mind, shouldn't be ours to begin with).

That's when we learn the power of our thank you...it doesn't move the rocks, it removes our resistance. God intervenes in our life in our behalf...on his timetable. We learn firsthand that God has to go slow in order for us to keep up, and slow he does go. Until we know from our toenails up, had he gone any faster, we'd have quit the field.

God can and will if asked...and we are patient.

Thank you.