WE TRUST GOD'S UNREASON

Morning blinding flash of the obvious:  There is an untapped higher intelligence deep within. Now is the time. Use it.

Ongoing thoughts: I am in a quandary about several things in my life today. My reasoning mind is all aflutter. I choose to accept that now is the time I am to trust that untapped inner power...to detach from reliance on my reasoning mind (but not to deny it).

A while back I wrote that it is detachment from reliance on our reasoning mind that sets us on the path to freedom. And yet today I am fraught with serious problems concerning my eyes and my ears...with petty problems about my car...with etc., etc., etc. 

There is a niggling question about all these being dicey at the same time...the old is it odd or is it God?

I am definitely seeing the appropriate doctors about eyes and ears, and I know that all the other stuff and nonsense will get taken care of one at a time. But I suspect that this is the time to trust that these, too, can be lifted up deeper. Not to be fixed as I want them to be fixed, but for the within fraught to be resolved...for there's the problem. 

I go to one of my favorite learning lessons: 'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.' -- Nikka, 6

Doesn't make a lick of sense, does it? But there it is...we must go beyond reason to love laid out by a six-year-old.

In other words, go in the opposite direction of our wants. This is true of every happening in our life...trust each not to our reasoning mind, trust our reasoning mind to our inner power, our higher intelligence, to bring about our needs. 

We will never learn trust in the unreason by getting our wants met...spoiled children are the proof of that. 

I go with common sense for my day-to-day guardrail, and my daily get-together with God for my failsafe.  

Thank you.

FIRST REALIZE WHAT HIS KINGDOM IS

G. K. Chesterton, when asked what the trouble with the world is, replied, 'I am.'

Each time I read that quote, I know it for the truth...about all of us. But it only counts personally if I know it about me, then I seek better from me. 

If we're spiritually serious about exchanging the egoic mind for the spiritual mind, we are inviting a whole new level of understanding to come calling. We say we believe that our Father knows our needs, that we seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well. We say.

We are on the path toward learning the difference in saying and believing and proving the truth of the matter. As in, "seek first his kingdom" requires that we have an idea for our own self what his kingdom even  is...what it represents to us personally. 

To me today "his kingdom" is out of self, deeper within into a higher dimension...there, where his righteousness lives. 

"His righteousness" is spelled out in the Sermon which goes entirely 100 percent against the egoic mind. It boils down to upside-down, mirror image, give over, give up, give in, and others first...our Father has our back.

As I continue to seek still more spiritual growth, I expect my understanding to change, to be upgraded down...shucked of its pretensions in fact. That's been my experience at any rate, but I hope I'm not surprised when "not what I expected" happens. 

Again, and yet again, We must go beyond reason to love.

Thank you.

IT'S THE DOING THAT MATTERS, II

[Following is a slightly reworked reprint of my post of December 21, 2017.]

I wonder if every word we utter isn't a prayer, if what we get isn't what we prayed for...albeit, unintentionally most often.

Sometime ago, I said in passing, a throwaway line in truth, that I'd like to be able to do as Jesus did when he stood accused before Pontius Pilate...stood silently before his judge, saying not a word.

I am here to shout that since I blathered that (now I recognize) bald-faced lie, I have been slandered, judged, found wanting and marginalized. Marginalized is just a fancy word for ignored, and, whoa Mama! There's my worst fear...with cleats.

I've got to say, I can find it funny when I take the time to see it as an answered prayer. But, even as I type, my ego Lucy With The Football is writing a script to use to get a certain person told.

I read a recent George Will column (which is surprising enough) but that I agree he nailed it is almost scary to me. Nonetheless, he wrote that Americans are addicted to indignation, and I identified from my toenails up. I regret that I identify, but there it is.

The sliver of gold is that addiction, if done right, will lead us to crash-and-burn...hopeless despair, i.e., powerless. From that necessary end, God's will is born, and we begin to trust God, to clean house, to  help others.

We are brought down...to the grace of love and laughter.

Thank you.

BEWARE "THE HUMAN CONDITION" BEING A CYA

[The following is from a partial post of mine from September ? 2012...it hits home for me today.] 

Lately I'm hearing a lot of "that's the human condition." About almost every unexamined stumbling block in one's daily life, in fact. 

I have come to believe that the human condition is such that we need to live by a higher standard than we’d naturally choose...else "the human condition" becomes just another excuse, cop-out, CYA for doing what we want to do because we want to do it. 

As for me, I've got too many human conditions as it is...and none of them have ever given me long-term peace of mind. 

 I'm going to continue thinking, "Bless him/her/them, change me." Then try acting like I mean it.

Thank you.

STICK FIGURES, PRIMARY COLORS AND LOVE

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am captivated by the material mind v. higher consciousness, and today the following bloomed full-flower:

In re WWII, USA v. Japan...USA attacked at Pearl Harbor by Japan, fought Japan, et al., and won. There...an example of resisting evil and winning...the material world, or reasoning mind consciousness, the apparent winner at the time. 

Here follows my own risky facts:  Thus USA's attachment to fighting to win was confirmed...albeit "winning" has not been overly apparent for us since then. As in, today we are in a fight with hometown terrorism which is thriving amongst us. Again, reasoning mind consciousness is coming the winning loser. 

Japan lost, surrendered, gave up utterly and completely, and is now a leader in the economic field and seems comfortable in its spiritual being. 

Surrender to win...surrender the either/or reasoning mind to ascend deeper to higher consciousness. There be the Grandma Moses School of Higher Thought at which I am a full-time scholar. Stick figures and primary colors and go beyond reason to love.

Thank you.

Probably a necessary P.S.: Without my even being aware of it, this is probably me continuing to work through my intense anger at Japan for its sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Aside, there my favorite uncle was stationed and served in the Army. 

CLOSE ENOUGH...MY SPIRITUAL DIRECTIVE

To have but one goal, still more spiritual growth, is a life lesson in itself. Paring down my many goals, I discover most to be merely wants. I realize again, as I wrote long ago, There is no ego gold in spiritual growth. Like charity, spiritual growth is its own reward.

I'm thinking that spiritual growth cannot be an achievable intellectual goal...we can want it, seek it, of course...but we grow spiritually whether we want to or not. We can make a decision to seek still more spiritual growth...then read, study, practice living Goldsmith's words, Rohr's ideas, Easwaran's directions, but until we realize our own...until from within we know, and we know we know...we're just a walking around library for another's spiritual history lessons.

We must needs make it our own...oh wait. No. We must needs be made Its own. Transformed, in a word. That cannot be done by our efforts, want as we will. 

I am still wanting to know, to feel, to experience, to fully realize the love of God within me. 

I accept that I am in the pipeline. I am being processed. In the crucible. I take comfort knowing that, but transformed? Not yet. I may have many more lifetimes to live before I realize I have ever been Its own...which is what transformed means to me. Today, knowing I am being led in the right direction is close enough to perfect for me.

Close enough is my spiritual directive...it stops the ego-gold perfect in its ego-dung tracks. 

Thank you.

WE GO TO GOD FOR GOD...AND THAT IS ALL

My yesterday's blinding flash of the obvious, it is not what happened to us as children but how, even then, we chose to respond, expanded itself this morning.

I have forgotten how long ago that "everything happens by invitation only" occurred to me...at least forty, maybe forty-five, years ago. I have had that truth proved to me many times for which I am grateful, and I have learned the lessons. (Forgotten, too, but the lessons keep coming back if we keep moving in the right direction. There be the well-hidden gift of humility.)  

It was my BFO of yesterday when I was shaken by my realization that I experienced anew the difference between knowing from my eyebrows up and realizing from my Soul. 

We can know but until we realize, our knowing is pretty much talk, quoting a lot, reading more...and that is as it needs be. That's our tottering steps forward, looking to participate in the process.

When we realize, the hot air of talk is quieted, and our actions flow the proof. I can believe that, but my Now participation in the process will prove it. Another hard lesson a-borning: It is only when we realize, fully realize, that our Now sets the course.

If experience holds (and why wouldn't it?), I expect that my participation in the process originally will feel like "uh-oh, I've screwed up again." A hundred times out of a hundred that's how God's giftees have worked in my life...seldom have I overcome an egoic idea, wish or want-to, and promptly felt right good about it. They've come wrapped in rues, regrets and remorses, and there's the proof of purchase: An Oh-No! to us is a Yes! to God. According to me.

We must go beyond reason to love.

Thank you.