NOT BY REASON, BUT BY GRACE

My still-in-bed blinding flash of the obvious: God is our presence, not a Being out there for us to pray to, but consciousness...a part of us, alive within us, and already active as us whether we know it or not.

Then I read God Calling today, "Search until you meet Me face to face...." 

There's assurance that the BFO was a meeting with God face-to-face. Ah, but our living it will tell the rest of the story. 

It is the acting on it that is the will-o'-the-wisp. Acting on it is to sit and wait on the Lord to make known to us by our actions His will, His way. That's the holy paradox...to sit and wait on the Lord is the spiritually required action. 

Uh-oh...to spiritually sit and wait on the Lord is not to sit on our keister and wait to be gifted with rainbows and roses. This is when, where and how we prove Fr Richard's we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. 

We need to walk through the muck and the mire of doing it wrong, i.e., our own mistakes, to realize them as God's gold...all our uglies are blessed by God even as we live them.

Just as nothing turns us to God faster than fear, the muck and the mire are for our benefit...to experience God's will, God's way. Or, not by reason, but by grace.

Thank you.