Just five days ago, I watched President Biden on TV announce he was giving up for the good of the country his campaign for re-election to the presidency of the United States. With that declaration, he gave up his very active career as a positive force in politics.
The president has had a boatload of tragedy in his life, but I can only imagine that qualified as the worst day in his political life.
From my own experience, the promise came to mind for the president that the worst thing that could happen to us can become the best thing that could happen for us.
As that thought floated, another memory of me back in the day entered...of me in my early self-adoration days when I was one of the first younger woman in my Fellowship's area. The door was opening to others to come but many who came at that time naturally turned to me. My ego and I took it as personal...not to mention deserved. (Uh-oh...watch out for that first step....)
By God and by grace, the wall I hit was that the other women eventually turned away from me to find their own spiritual path.
That was me at seven into nine years in the Fellowship. Those were times of serious pain...what today I know to be necessary suffering, or the way out of self into Self.
My suffering finally brought me to my spiritual group meeting where I was forced to admit, out loud and weeping, that I did not know if there is a God, "but there is no God in my life today." Oh, the egoic pain...which hides in our heart making it the more excruciating.
This was my second crash and burn...crash and burn, that which we try with a will to avoid and, given into, becomes our pearl beyond price. Thus began my serious search for still more spiritual growth in and within my Fellowship...and praise God continues to this day.
As I ponder my view of today's political maelstrom...primarily American, but worldwide...I am lifted by the promise: God's hand is in it...pray thank you and keep the faith.
Thank you.
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