WE MUST GO BEYOND REASON

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me...thy rod and thy staff are love and laughter...or, tears and travail. 

Interesting to me...the first part being named "love and laughter" came to me many years ago, but the "tears and travail" flashed just this morning. 

I'm guessing whether we are consciously aware of it or not, our inner prayer is for love and laughter with tears and travail never on our wish list.

Yet, as we mature in faith, we realize that without tears and travail, where is our soul's need for the hand of God?  We may have the egoic want, but the God-given need is a faith-driven imperative. 

This is most often the very thing we pray God relieve us of...and gift us with our own self-determined objective dressed up in our mind as God's will, God's way

We must go beyond reason to love, to God's will, God's way.

Thank you.