With all the brass band chaos parading around our world, it is difficult showing...or knowing...joy in our heart...which brings to mind an old saying, Get happy if it kills you.
That's not bad advice...if we don't get happy, if we are stuck feeling angry, morose, or just "merely" depressed we're going to be sunk in self...face it, sunk in self is not known to reach for the stars.
But happy does. Happy reaches for the stars.
Happy is our joystick, and lest we forget, it is entirely up to us to use it. Aim toward the stars, get them in focus and pray an enthusiastic thank you...repeatedly.
When, not if, that fails us, the lesson begins...we pray thank you and, no matter what, we mean it.
The learning lesson is to experience God's will, God's way, and that it in no way resembles our will, our way. Our idea for thank you? Primarily, getting more money...a lot more money.
Paradoxically, hopeless is our best hope. Hopeless has nowhere to go but to God.
Many of us have pulled off our best wish for our self and even had a dream or two come true, yet in seemingly no time it crashed around us.
Here's my take on God's will, God's way: We are on the right track, moving in the right direction when we find life is neither a boon nor a bane, not for our benefit, not to take us down. Our mind is changed not by self, not for self, but by the Spirit.
All we need be is willing to lose all thought of life being for our benefit. Know this...our reasoning mind cannot get us there.
We must go beyond reason to God.
Thank you.
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