HERE AND NOW IS PERFECT...HERE AND NOW

'This moment or this place is as perfect as it can be.' As long as we think happiness is around the corner, it means that we have not grasped happiness yet. Because happiness is given in this moment and this place, and this moment and place are as perfect as they can be. - Father Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, March 5, 2023

Happiness is a state of mind...just as sadness is...as anger, self-pity, envy, etc., are. Proving again the answer to unhappy is a change of mind. Or, a change to our state of mind. 

We've found that we cannot change our mind on want-to alone or on petitioning God to change it for us. We slowly accept that what we're doing today is based on the mistakes we learned from. We are building a spiritual state of mind by making adjustments, inviting new, tossing old...giving heft to the saying that you must do it wrong to get it right.

 

According to me, a true change of mind begins with a change of our consciousness, which is God's territory over which we have no say-so. Here, our can-do is more a bane than a boon since the change is spiritual in nature, and trying becomes a block.     

As we know, when we upgrade our attitude, we downgrade our problem. Yes, but. Oh, realization aborning: trying to upgrade our attitude is akin to trying to change our mind, a hard lesson in futility. 

Trying is the poison...trying is reliance on self. Self-reliance is ego on parade. Resist not. 

Without thought, we shoot a grateful smile and exchange trying for an image of lilies of the valley, or a puppy at play, or a kitten with a ball of yarn. God things. God takes it from there. 

'This moment or this place is as perfect as it can be.' There...our affirmation of God's will, God's way.

Thank you.