SILENCE IS OF GOD

Try not to be as nasty as you want to be. -- my personal golden rule lifted from a Henry Mitchell column, "Washington Post," early '80s.

Slowly I am accepting an already known fact...it is my thoughts that are the source of my nasty...our thoughts that we must discipline daily not to be as nasty we want to be. We begin in our morning quiet time...before we remember that slight resentful nudge from yesterday (or ten years ago). That One, that s/he who sent the supersonic arrow that justifies our ego being as nasty as we want to be.

It is that arrow that is our bane and our gold. Our bane because it is so small as to appear easy-peasy to overcome when, in truth, it is I See Me, and we have never won that one; our gold because it is I See Me, and God's got that one.

Awareness unto acceptance is the bedrock of one day at a time...meaning every day...every day we go into our quiet time, into the silence, remembering "Silence is God’s first language," according to Thomas Merton.

In the silence, our inner eyes and ears are ever open to receive the guidance of our Father within. Face it, our Father would never guide us or our thoughts to be as nasty as we want to be.

Thank you.