Yesterday morning, May 28, I had a mini-reveal. I have ever said that all I wanted was peace of mind...came a blinding flash of the obvious: Your need is to want peace of mind for others as much as you want peace of mind for yourself. I felt a tish wonderstruck.
Then Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" this morning, May 29, had this assurance: All we have to do is discover our own gift, even if it is just one thing, and use it for the good of all.
The special aid for me is that Rohr's assurance of this morning was a rerun from Monday, May 24. So when I had my chat on Friday, May 28, already I had read but forgotten the assurance of Monday four days earlier. I choose to believe it was just sitting there in my consciousness, ready for me when he knew I would need it...and there it was, my bright light this morning.
A wrap: All we have to do is discover our own gift, even if it is just one thing, and use it for the good of all. Your need is to want peace of mind for others as much as you want peace of mind for yourself.
Further flash, deeper understanding of "my need...for others." Specifically, I am to act for the benefit as much for others as for myself. To seek peace of mind for others more than for myself would be ego, plain and simple. Without God's guidance, that is surely where my egoic mind would lead me, trying to prove my humility.
For years now, my unpolished desire has been: Just try not to be as nasty as you want to be. Which is not as easy as it probably ought to be.
Apparently, now I am to consciously do peace...physically, mentally, spiritually...for the benefit of myself and whomever comes into my atmosphere by word, thought or deed, seen or unseen.
The good news is I can let my unpolished me continue while I lean more completely on my higher Me. We know that God's hand is in it when both come out the winner!
Thank you.
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