Trust in the unseen Lord comes from our not knowing how, when, where He has made the crooked places straight. That is ours to know, to rely on, without thought or prayer.
It is also ours to know without thought or prayer, i.e., to trust, that all our rues, regrets and remorses only exist in our own minds. They have vanished...or been vanquished...even as they occurred. All by the unseen and unseeable forces of the Almighty.
This we do not come to trust...we do not trust the bad being made good, just as we do not wait for a bad to happen to us in order to practice trusting. We trust as we breathe or it is not trust at all, it's wishful thinking.
This, I'm thinking, is the entire body of forgiveness. We cannot wait for bad to happen in order to say, "I forgive." We trust the Lord and forgiveness cannot not be ours...because we are not in it, only God is.
I'm convinced it all starts with our opening to the wonders of Now. We welcome Now...whatever our eyes are perceiving, our mind is interpreting...whatever our reasoning mind is resisting!...right this very red hot minute...we welcome with our thank you. And love and laugh.
Laughter...love and laughter...God made visible in our Soul to our heart.
Thank you.
Saturday, September 7, 2019
Friday, September 6, 2019
GOD'S SOLUTION: LOVE AND LAUGH
I wonder if the second coming of Christ isn't just like patience, love, tolerance, et al.? That is, within us from before conception, with us always, so all we need do is use them.
If that be so, doesn't Thou prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies mean
this is our God-given opportunity to use our patience, love, tolerance?
We need daily discipline to get in the habit with each and every ego-flinch we receive to think of it as the second coming. But who's kidding whom? More like, we look back on it as such; in the moment, however, with our thank you, we know it for grace, a chance to begin to move it from our head to our heart, then to our Soul to be realized unto full gratitude.
Long/short: When, not if, my name and/or my character are abused by anyone, I get to pray my automatic thank you which turns me away from my problem to God's solution of responding with the love and tolerance within me waiting to be used.
Not to sound more heavenly than human, I rely heavily on my Golden Rule: Try not to be as nasty as you want to be.
Thank you.
If that be so, doesn't Thou prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies mean
this is our God-given opportunity to use our patience, love, tolerance?
We need daily discipline to get in the habit with each and every ego-flinch we receive to think of it as the second coming. But who's kidding whom? More like, we look back on it as such; in the moment, however, with our thank you, we know it for grace, a chance to begin to move it from our head to our heart, then to our Soul to be realized unto full gratitude.
Long/short: When, not if, my name and/or my character are abused by anyone, I get to pray my automatic thank you which turns me away from my problem to God's solution of responding with the love and tolerance within me waiting to be used.
Not to sound more heavenly than human, I rely heavily on my Golden Rule: Try not to be as nasty as you want to be.
Thank you.
Thursday, September 5, 2019
DREADED TRUTH BIRTHS GOD'S WILL
The hardest thing about the cosmic gifts we receive is remembering them...in the moment of need in particular. The moment of need is not when we want to lay it on someone who clearly needs to hear it...and from us...but when we need to use it, to DO it.
It's particularly difficult to remember God's hand is in it when we're facing a really rough life situation, say, the ill health of ourself or a loved one.
Interestingly, our fear seems to grow exponentially the less facts we have. Getting the word which is exactly that which we've dreaded can be the very release we need.
While that is often true for ourself, perversely, if it's true for our loved one, we compound our fear with another fear... as in, what can I do, how can I fix it, make it okay? And, oh yeah, what about me?
That is precisely when we most need to remember God's hand is in it...is in the dreaded truth for ourself or for our beloved, that this is our time to die, or in our fear regarding our loved one...that we are going to be left all alone.
Remembering that truth is not truth to us personally until we prove it to ourself personally, we accept this truth-proving time: Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for Thou art with me. And we are graced with the peace that comes from realizing in that moment that God's hand is in this. We know not how, but we do know all is well
Thank you.
It's particularly difficult to remember God's hand is in it when we're facing a really rough life situation, say, the ill health of ourself or a loved one.
Interestingly, our fear seems to grow exponentially the less facts we have. Getting the word which is exactly that which we've dreaded can be the very release we need.
While that is often true for ourself, perversely, if it's true for our loved one, we compound our fear with another fear... as in, what can I do, how can I fix it, make it okay? And, oh yeah, what about me?
That is precisely when we most need to remember God's hand is in it...is in the dreaded truth for ourself or for our beloved, that this is our time to die, or in our fear regarding our loved one...that we are going to be left all alone.
Remembering that truth is not truth to us personally until we prove it to ourself personally, we accept this truth-proving time: Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for Thou art with me. And we are graced with the peace that comes from realizing in that moment that God's hand is in this. We know not how, but we do know all is well
Thank you.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
THE YIELD OF UNSOUGHT FRUIT
Again I realize that going down that wrong road again is going down the right road. I feel freed from an old opinion...fear, of course...that is already yielding unsought fruit.
When we realize this wrong road has precious fruit for us, we are liberated...set free from our own needy opinion that we are right. Our precious fruit ripens to the realization that we cannot let them win...we need to work with them to help them win...especially when they are winning over us...for it is only our ego that is looking for the win.
Ah, here comes the deeper realization that the will of our Father within is for us to work together to help each other not to win but to find peace in a whole new way of living life together. For there is no lose and there is no win...there is only the will of God, Love and Laughter.
To have the good opinion of those I admire is greater than being awarded any How Great I Art prize...to have the good opinion of those I don't admire is probably even better. That sincere desire can only come when I am living that which, from my eyebrows up, I am knowing...that there is no win, there is no lose, there is only the will of God...to love and laugh.
Thank you.
When we realize this wrong road has precious fruit for us, we are liberated...set free from our own needy opinion that we are right. Our precious fruit ripens to the realization that we cannot let them win...we need to work with them to help them win...especially when they are winning over us...for it is only our ego that is looking for the win.
Ah, here comes the deeper realization that the will of our Father within is for us to work together to help each other not to win but to find peace in a whole new way of living life together. For there is no lose and there is no win...there is only the will of God, Love and Laughter.
To have the good opinion of those I admire is greater than being awarded any How Great I Art prize...to have the good opinion of those I don't admire is probably even better. That sincere desire can only come when I am living that which, from my eyebrows up, I am knowing...that there is no win, there is no lose, there is only the will of God...to love and laugh.
Thank you.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
REACT IN KIND OR RESPOND WITH KINDNESS?
We come again to Saint Augustine's perfect prayer: Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. That authored my morning prayer: Thank you, Father, for my everything just as it is right this very instant for it is what I have invited and you have perfected.
Ours is to not resist his perfected work, but, in fact to welcome it. The welcoming begins with thank you, the unceasing silent prayer of thank you. To live in an unceasing thank you is to not resist anything...which opens us to peaceful acceptance of what is...Now.
The well-nigh impossible part of this is our willingness to wait on the command from on high deep within us.
Learning to wait is probably how I learned that I have but one character defect, and it is not lack of patience. It is that I take myself too seriously, and I take myself too seriously when I resist anything...snubs, snarks, unfair, et al.
When that one character defect is activated, all the other character defects climb aboard, like barnacles attaching to a ship, and I am weighed down in my own self with impatience, judging, reacting in kind rather than responding with kindness...and the list goes on.
The life lesson we must learn is the art of nonresistance...we turn immediately to the Father within, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and follow whatever guidance we receive. Sit and wait on the Lord to start.
Thank you.
Ours is to not resist his perfected work, but, in fact to welcome it. The welcoming begins with thank you, the unceasing silent prayer of thank you. To live in an unceasing thank you is to not resist anything...which opens us to peaceful acceptance of what is...Now.
The well-nigh impossible part of this is our willingness to wait on the command from on high deep within us.
Learning to wait is probably how I learned that I have but one character defect, and it is not lack of patience. It is that I take myself too seriously, and I take myself too seriously when I resist anything...snubs, snarks, unfair, et al.
When that one character defect is activated, all the other character defects climb aboard, like barnacles attaching to a ship, and I am weighed down in my own self with impatience, judging, reacting in kind rather than responding with kindness...and the list goes on.
The life lesson we must learn is the art of nonresistance...we turn immediately to the Father within, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and follow whatever guidance we receive. Sit and wait on the Lord to start.
Thank you.
Monday, September 2, 2019
ON WELCOMING GOD'S UNKNOWN WILL
In the cosmic ether, I have averred...and believed...I would rather have God's will before my will done in my life always and all ways.
As my life's travels and travails wind down, however, and I accept that I'm a lot closer to the end of my journey than ever, the light is shining brighter on my inner, unspoken, hopes and dreams. None, Father forgive me, have doing God's will in them. Who's kidding whom? The cosmic ether is not about personal hopes and dreams.
It is clear to my inner me that the hardest thing I need to accept is God's unknown will for me.
This recent dream of mine causes my reflection: The kingdom of heaven and its glories beyond imaging are mine within me right now, bigger, better, richer than any hope or dream possible. But no one, not a soul, in my world knows of my gifts.
[Here's where my ego Lucy launches her final bid for victory] A kindly soul comes into my life and convincingly offers me my wildest dream come true with all the attendant bells and whistles...meaning, everyone in my world is a witness to my glory.
All in exchange for my desire to do God's unknown will for me.
End of dream without my decision spoken. From my eyebrows up, I'm completely confident I'd turn any such offer down. But the dream floats by on occasion...and I dither with it...for the fun, of course.
It is clear to my inner me that the hardest thing I need to fear not is God's unknown will for me.
Thank you.
As my life's travels and travails wind down, however, and I accept that I'm a lot closer to the end of my journey than ever, the light is shining brighter on my inner, unspoken, hopes and dreams. None, Father forgive me, have doing God's will in them. Who's kidding whom? The cosmic ether is not about personal hopes and dreams.
It is clear to my inner me that the hardest thing I need to accept is God's unknown will for me.
This recent dream of mine causes my reflection: The kingdom of heaven and its glories beyond imaging are mine within me right now, bigger, better, richer than any hope or dream possible. But no one, not a soul, in my world knows of my gifts.
[Here's where my ego Lucy launches her final bid for victory] A kindly soul comes into my life and convincingly offers me my wildest dream come true with all the attendant bells and whistles...meaning, everyone in my world is a witness to my glory.
All in exchange for my desire to do God's unknown will for me.
End of dream without my decision spoken. From my eyebrows up, I'm completely confident I'd turn any such offer down. But the dream floats by on occasion...and I dither with it...for the fun, of course.
It is clear to my inner me that the hardest thing I need to fear not is God's unknown will for me.
Thank you.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
NO RESISTANCE, NO PROBLEM
Giving of our physical, mental, and emotional resources isn’t usually ego-affirming, but it is a path toward holiness. It’s not what you do that makes you holy. It’s what you allow to be done to you that makes you holy. - Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 23, 2019
It is what we allow to be done to us for the benefit of others that is the hidden message. The hidden message is the forever message.
The unwritten message of the entire Sermon on the Mount is: We do these things for the benefit of others, for we are God's representative on this earth, and we are dealing with God's representative on this earth. Be ye therefore perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect.
This earth is God's proving ground; we are each God's image, each given free will, each being made perfect with the free will of each dictating our terms. Everything happens by invitation only. The sooner we loose it and let it go, the sooner we are freed from the tether of our own will.
All, of course, according to me.
Thank you.
It is what we allow to be done to us for the benefit of others that is the hidden message. The hidden message is the forever message.
The unwritten message of the entire Sermon on the Mount is: We do these things for the benefit of others, for we are God's representative on this earth, and we are dealing with God's representative on this earth. Be ye therefore perfect even as our Father in Heaven is perfect.
This earth is God's proving ground; we are each God's image, each given free will, each being made perfect with the free will of each dictating our terms. Everything happens by invitation only. The sooner we loose it and let it go, the sooner we are freed from the tether of our own will.
All, of course, according to me.
Thank you.
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