MY LORD, WHAT A MORNING!

'13 BFO: I dig the ditches that allows God a cleared road.

Giving my reasoning mind its righteous props was/is a steep climb for me. For ever so long I was taught ...or I thought I was taught...that the reasoning mind is our bane and not to be trusted. Which I still believe is about half right...speaking of my own reasoning mind only. But the half that is right is good, necessary and as righteous as it's ever going to be.

For instance, my blinding flash of the obvious from five years ago, I dig the ditches that allows God a cleared road, speaks of the inside work I must do to begin to be free of me...the necessary ditches to be dug to go through my ego Lucy's tools and toys and tamperings.

That inside work cannot be done alone; it requires another person, a lot of other persons usually, to hold us honest. As has been said, going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous. And going alone on a dig within is perilous.

We need our reasoning mind not only to choose a reasonably fitting person to do our dig with, but for all the other non-digging times...to decide between ice cream and sugar-free yogurt, for Pete's sake.

It is the melding of our reasoning mind with our still more spiritual growth that needs hands off, or  quieted mind, but also...and here's the hook...an open mind. We sit in the silence with our intention and attention focused on...nada. Which lasts a nanosecond. Refocus...bring it back home. Focus on nada.

And then...and THEN...we experience a teeny-tiny shift, and it feels as if the entire Book of Revelation has just been revealed...in a heartbeat. And we know, and we know we know: He goes before me to make the crooked places straight.

My Lord, what a morning...when my sun began to shine.

Thank you.