A HUG FROM GOD...AH, HAPPINESS

Here's my dilemma: I am going through a period of conflict, as in, shake the dust off your sandals and move on? Or move closer to your offender with love?

I read today's "Daily Meditation," and am told: Where we are now is perfect. It is perfect for the lessons the Holy Spirit wants us to learn. It is perfect in providing us with mirrors, that is, other people who reflect back to us our level of consciousness, our fears, and our strengths. . . .

I receive a blinding flash of the obvious: When we're walking through dross, keep in mind that this is God intervening in our life in our behalf.

This is precisely why an enlightened mind can be a plain old pain. My ego Lucy is getting crude, and we want to split. There it is, plain and simple. If we never get to shake the dust off our sandals and move on, why is it even mentioned? Why are we given the option?

Then my spiritual awakening awakens, and from my eyebrows up, it's love and laugh. My gut, however, is not so easily swayed. Right now, green pastures to God seem to be cow piles to me, still waters to God seem to be Flint, MI, waters to me. At least I have both common sense and spiritual awareness enough to know God is righter than I'll ever be, so I'll go with God.

And there it is, the balm to my Soul...I can natter God, disagree with him, all but call him a crazy old coot, and I can feel him laughing with love for me personally.

I just got hugged by God. Happiness is....

Thank you.