GOD'S NET IS NEVER NOT THERE

I was reminded this morning of two incidents in my life when I was totally misunderstood, misquoted, and judged wanting by many in my world who accepted the canards...possibly because I chose to respond not to either.

Here's how my Father goes before me to make my crooked places straight: Way back in 1975, a dear soul had told me that there would come times when we are misheard, and "best we not respond and risk getting their mud on our skirts." I choose to believe my Father knew I'd be needing that advice, and in 1988 then again in 2018, a 30-year period, it proved true and invaluable to me. 

My crooked places were made straight...i.e., my soul and my ego were both quieted through prescience, or the invisible ever-present power of God.

Those experiences have relieved me of much of my desire to clean up the wreckage of my future...the human tendency to fret, worry and stew. It's the basis of my acceptance that God's will is the mirror image of my dread and/or my desire. That's when that which I dreaded turns out to be my pearl, my desire becomes my what-was-I-thinking?

Consider this: Maybe we have it wrong when everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, and we think we're going down that wrong road again. Face it, the Road to Damascus couldn't have seemed like the right road to Saul when he was knocked clean off his horse in that instant or hour...that time...of his enlightenment.

Which isn't to say, without thought we continue down our seemingly wrong road. No. We turn to the Father within and, in faith, seek his will...then we do something about something knowing that he can and will intervene in our life in our behalf.

We will be heard, we will be answered...we only need step out in faith to live that. Which is also known as "hold your nose and take a leap of faith." God's net is already there.

That's how we come to trust the invisible ever-present power of our Father within.

Thank you.