ASK, SEEK, KNOCK...THEN ACCEPT THE ANSWER

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. -- Matthew 7:7

We have learned that we are not responsible for what others hear us say nor are we responsible for how they interpret what they hear us say. I can believe that it is in the Sermon at this verse that that lesson originates. 

After a whole lot of deep study of detaching from reliance on our reasoning mind, we realize: What we are given, what we find, what is opened to us is God's understanding of our ask. Ah, yes...the Father provides our needs not our wants.  

We pray for our want, God hears and answers our need. That it is perfect for us may take a long time to "get." Which is as it must be...that assures our still more spiritual study.

Thank you.

GOD IS WALKING US BACK HOME

God has no good-conduct hook...that is what our own conscience is for.

When we seek God's forgiveness, we'd best understand that we are seeking our own forgiveness. God does not forgive...God loves. He cannot see a need for forgiveness. We, however, can. We  invariably and simultaneously over- and under-estimate the reason for the need, but that's just ego riding herd.

Slowly we learn: Since ego is ever with us, we stay in ego's hold when we resist it...ah, but with God as our guide, we can use it. We're reminded (daily) that ego legislates for itself, but it no longer functions as our joystick. 

Now we can rely on our inner connection, our conscience, which has been molded, scolded and loved into our pot of gold. Through our ongoing spiritual footwork, we  detach (daily) from our egoic  mind.

Detaching from our reasoning mind while allowing it (as if we have a choice!) to function within us is God's great gift of free will. Trusting our conscience now, we also trust our free will to continue journeying us back Home.

Thank you.

CERTAINTY vs. UNKNOWING

We come to believe by experiencing. When we experience the wonders of our Father, we cannot not believe.

All of our perceived problems, our worrit du jour, have already been fixed, healed, lifted by God. Which remains "coincidence" for a long, long time. And that is as it must be. We fret at our unbelief when in fact we're doing it right. Our fret is our impetus to go deeper...deeper into our own self as opposed to yet another how-to book.

We must take care, however, that our certainty of God does not become the enemy, ego. Unless we practice our faithful words, as in do that which our perceived problem has us in fear of, saying God's got this is just so many words...and a block to us. 

The unsettling part of practicing our words is that we fail so often. But of course we fail! That's the basis of our fear! How else do we get to the other side of our fear but by stepping out into it? Falling, getting up, trying a different tact, falling but less hard...with deeper assurance...each time.

I've come to believe that this is the fruit of what Jesus said about his lessons being too much for us to take in all at once. Those missteps, mistakes, ego-deflaters are spiritual growth aborning. That's us being shown bit by bit but only as we put in more God time, lessening the me-first time.   

Call it the fallacy of personal certainty, the gift of impersonal unknowing. Or, I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. -- John 16:12

Thank you.

ASK NOT, PRAY THANK YOU, MOVE ON

Stay in the Now. Resist not evil. Love our enemies. Acceptance is the answer. Bring peace.

There it is: My core answers to any problem I invite into my consciousness.

Stay in the Now for the Now is all there is. We learn to break Now down to "a day at a time" which makes it more mentally doable.

Resist not evil. Staying in our reasoning mind, we can find evil in a red light when we're running late. All the sudden, its a personal insult, we hit the horn, the person in front of us takes umbrage (resists), and we've got a brand new problem (enemy).

Love our enemies. We love our enemies for our enemy is anything we resist, and, face it, most days, we resist getting up in the morning. The sooner we love that, the less we resist it...and since our day starts way better, we're less likely to be running late. See where this is going?

Acceptance is the answer. We learn fairly quickly the difference between acceptance and resignation...resignation stays us in a self-determined objective, acceptance moves us up deeper to our spiritual center. From whence flows our peace.

Bring peace. Peace is birthed in us by living our core answers.

Once we're comfortable living those core answers, we can pretty much ask not, pray thank you, and keep on moving.

Thank you.

ON FAITH ALONE FORGIVENESS IS BORN

I doubt not that forgiveness is so difficult for us not only to do but to want to do because we have not a clue what forgiveness means to us personally. 

Letting go of a justified resentment comes easily to mind, but that very ease brings the reason for the resentment, then the justification...and forgive? No way, not in this lifetime, follows.

Our material mind tells us what forgiveness should feel like...warm, wonderful and just a tish superior. Which is the clue that the root of the problem is the material mind. 

I am convinced that forgiveness cannot be done by self-will or want-to alone...they may be "Santa's little helpers," but we must go beyond the reasoning mind. Beyond our self-will and want-to. As in, "Deliver all those giftees all over the world in one night? Can't be done."  Except by a power greater than ourself. Go to bed, go to sleep, wake up...giftees! All our own! 

When we become as a little child, on faith alone Christ is born, Santa flies, and Christmas comes to our heart, our soul, our body and our brain. With forgiveness the lead Dog.

Thank you.

SELF-LESS LIVING, A WAR-LESS WORLD

I remind me again: Self legislates for self...that's why we must go to God for God and that is all. There peace is born.

The reasoning mind is not suited to bring peace to itself. That's the nature of a reasoning mind...it reasons, rejects, reasons, rejects. Actually, that's the definition of reasoning...compare, pull apart, put together, ponder, accept, reject.

The spiritually actuated reasoning mind, however, is the key to bringing peace to bear in our life. Or, bringing peace to bear in life itself...which is purely spreading kindness without effort and little to no thought.

Bringing peace to bear is self-less living resulting in a war-less world.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Thank you.

TRUST, FAITH AND HAPPY DESTINY

Trust in our Father is not eyebrows-up knowing how or when or where His perfect work will be performed. No. Trust is inner knowing that it has already been performed...and all is well.

All is well when to our reasoning mind's eye it looks scarifying. Or not what we want at any rate.

I quote (again) Fr Richard Rohr's line, Grace isn’t a gift for getting it right but for getting it wrong!

There's the road we trudge to trust, to faith in our Father which leads to our happy destiny.

Thank you.