TO PRACTICE THE PRESENCE

The most sacred, most ordinary, and most necessary practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God. -- Brother Lawrence, "Practice of the Presence"

Learning how to practice the presence of God is my deeper goal now. To practice the presence of God is more than thoughts and words and prayers and even practices...I've learned.

The evergreen how to? is the gift that lives to give. 

I wonder if it isn't to live my life just as I have been living my life, but realizing, or recognizing, the inner working is and has ever been going on and for my benefit. For my benefit by benefitting others.

Here's where go beyond reason hits paydirt...go beyond reason to love. or to hope, or to...ah, or to practice the presence. Period. There. God's will, God's way simplified for us.

Knowing the right words is a good start, but doing is the pearl beyond price...not of self, but of Self. There's God's will...unexplainable in Its perfection.

Thank you.

GOD'S WILL, GOD'S WAY A-BLOOMING

 Well. 

This morning began with me feeling like this was the morning from hell...yet, underneath there was the sense of rightness.

Several differing feelings addled me. Boiling them down, it was not fear of insanity, but...maybe, it was the feeling of God's will, God's way a-blooming, thus not of my reasoning mind? 

I think that's as close as I'm going to get to it.

For sure something is happening within me...

I can stick with my reasoning mind and fear dementia...or...let it be dementia and begin my new life of God's will, God's way without my reasoning mind interpreting. 

Or I can love and laugh and know peace is at hand.

God thought: The crucifixion couldn't have felt like a party, albeit being for Our Man's benefit...for us.

Thank You.