LET. IT. BE.

I feel like I'm a walking-around tsunami. Things, events, happenings, diagnoses, tantrums, loved ones leaving, unloved ones staying. They're everywhere, they're everywhere! I have no idea where I first heard that, but it sure fits right now.

They are all appearing as less-than to me and my reasoning mind, and I give thanks from my toenails up that my reasoning mind does know that God has my back, all I need do is let all these less-thans float right on by me.

We all go through these times..."these times" are life itself. It is how we deal with life, our life just as it is right this very minute, that determines how at peace we are going to feel on the other side of these times.

Feeling stress is not "doing it wrong." No...it is having appropriate feelings for the situation at hand. The great gettin' up morning in our head is when we realize that we have a choice, and we choose not to act on our stressed feelings...this is the exact minute when we say, "Thank you," and mean it.

No need to define it for God, he's already fixed it. We just need to consciously know we're turning our head around, changing our mind, getting out of the driver's seat, letting go and letting God...all of those and any more we can think of to Let. It. Be.

We are going in the right direction, especially and specifically when things look bleak, and we say our thank you prayer without quibbling about it. Wow! That feels good just seeing it in black and white. Yes!

God just loves us. Hey...that's very likely why we have bleak times, to realize God's love for us.

Thank you.

WITHOUT CEASING

[The following is a reprint of my blog of April 8, 2015.]

I offered my ego to God to tame, to do with as he willed...the answer came back that the ego is mine to tame, to do with as I will...that’s the “free will” we are given before conception, at birth, throughout our life.

Our heart and soul we can give to God, but our ego is ours TO DISCIPLINE...that’s why we must needs seek still more spiritual growth daily, twice, thrice daily...”without ceasing.”

Thank you.

THANK YOU THAT I SEEK

Thank you for my everything just the way it appears to be through my eyes right this minute.

Thank you for my everything just the way it is through Your eyes Now, ever Now.

I seek to joy in the melding of mine, my will, into Yours. I seek to be enfolded into...enwrapped by...Your will and Your way.

I seek to ever seek by grace and gratitude.

Thank you.

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE OTHER...AH, PEACE

The thing is it is utterly useless just knowing that we have all the patience, love and kindness that we will ever need within us right this very minute if we do not use it on a daily basis. No. Not daily but as needed. Which is several, or many...who's kidding whom, innumerable...times a day.

That is not a blinding flash of the obvious...that is common sense.

Furthermore, that is common sense that cannot be done by the unaided self alone. Or, according to me, by the unaided-by-God self alone. Getting all the psychological aid there is or speaking affirmations till our face falls off...and all things in between...may well get our self-determined result, but it won't find us lasting peace of mind...which, to me today, is the kingdom of Heaven.

We get peace of mind by using for the benefit of the other our inner source of patience, love and kindness. We can only do that by knowing and showing that God is our supply of patience, love and kindness which effectively, and with a period behind it, takes out our concern for getting ours. Ah, now that is peace of mind.

Thank you.

SEEK YE FIRST...ACCEPTANCE

Picking up on my yesterday's off-the-top-of-my-head thought, that peace is the kingdom of Heaven, I wonder if it can be that peace of mind really is the kingdom of Heaven.

I suspect that describing the kingdom of Heaven is akin to describing God...impossible...but it's good for a ramble around in my head: 

Say that peace of mind is the kingdom of heaven, it seems that acceptance, then, would be the Way.

Seek first acceptance of any and all and every person, thing, situation, event...is it then, through that acceptance, that all things will be added unto us? Through our nonresistance to, or our acceptance of, all things, we will never not have peace of mind. Which for sure equates to God in my world.

Hmmm...would that then be God consciousness? A mind at peace...or, love, actually? There it is. God is love.

What a comforting ramble.

Thank you.

SO DO IT ALREADY

I can and do believe that becoming willing to love our nemesis is God's personal plan and gift for us, but until we actually DO "loving your enemy," i.e., the Sermon, not write about, talk about, but DO, we will not have peace...and that is the kingdom of Heaven.

Comes now another blinding flash of the obvious: Not by will, but by grace, be it done unto me.

What that says to me is actually doing the Sermon with gritted teeth and certitude in my rightness is just another self-determined objective...just another item on my 2-Do checklist. And, as a matter of fact, it can be done...but there is no spiritual growth there, no God or lasting good for that matter.

According to me, God's personal plan and gift for us is to turn daily to his love so It may walk us  through the Sermon with no other objective but to show forth the impersonal love of acceptance. All of which is harder for this natural person than actually doing the Sermon with gritted teeth and certitude in my rightness. The fact that it is doable and on my timetable does not make it right, it makes it the double-edged checklist...looking good, doing not so much.

To my ego-victory thinking, saying, "Yea, Yea," to an adversary with whom I am in mental disagreement is close enough to perfect. No. It is the mental disagreement that we must take to  God to be resolved within us. Until it is "peaced," it is growing a  resentment, and that resentment will haunt us, do our thinking for us, and cause us to doubt the power of spiritual growth...or, who's kidding whom, the existence of God.

Really, this just boils down to the same-old-same-old: Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven and all these things will be added unto you. There's my cheap shot of gratitude...my best thinking is speaking Biblically approved jargon. (Now, do it.)

Thank you.

LOVE AND LOVE ONLY

Morning blinding flash of the obvious: There is a reason why changing our mind is the hardest thing life will ever ask of us...the reason is because our ego always legislates for itself, a.k.a., me, and love legislates for the other. Which leaves the reasoning mind between the proverbial rock and a hard place...because it always legislates for me, too, but it knows better.

More and more I am knowing  that impersonal love is gut-bucket acceptance of everything that comes into our consciousness. In the silence, I see me giving over...unresisting...joyous...giving with both hands and my heart singing.

And then...my ego Lucy comes along, whispering words of personal love, I am right, s/he is wrong, it's not fair, why me? How long, oh Lord?

That's when I am knowing that which I am knowing is from my eyebrows up.

It is purely through grace that I am content that at least I've got it from my eyebrows up. Now the continuing discipline is to keep an attitude of gratitude and never cease seeking to bring it down to and through my heart, returning it to my Soul in order to set forth again.

I'll likely not get there till three days after I'm dead, or even in fourteen more lifetimes, but it makes no never mind to me when it happens...that it will happen is the promise I cling to, and it will happen if, as and when I follow the commandment to love and love only.

There it is...that's exactly how my nemesis du jour is my angel...becoming willing to love my nemesis is God's personal plan and gift for me...and you.

That's close enough to perfect for me.

Thank you.