GO BEYOND REASON TO LOVE...IN SILENCE

I may be at the door of acceptance...I am willing unto wanting to accept life on life's terms. The tell is that we know this, too, shall pass, and that, too, we can love.

We are peaced with the realization that daily life lessons are spiritual in nature. We cannot true-heart know this until we are living our very first spiritual lesson, i.e., resist not evil. In a word, acceptance. 

Three basic life lessons that defang ego biters are 1) take nothing personally, 2) do not be as nasty as we want to be, and 3) pray thank you for all we perceive.

Those are just so many words unless and until we cease talking them and are walking them daily, personally, silently. 

Thinking spiritual thoughts is not communing with the Lord. Talking, preaching, being right?...we're not communing. Not talking, preaching, being right...we're heading in the right direction toward experiencing the reality of silence as of God. 

Now we are opened to communing with the Lord. 

Thank you.

A DIALOGUE, II

[The following is a reprint of m post of October 26, 2016;]

I eavesdrop on a conversation between my ego Lucy and the Lord:

Lucy, ever defiant: I'm just as good as you are...why must I do what you suggest?

The Lord: You don't must, but I'd recommend that you look at what you're getting by not following my suggestion. Which, by the way, is to love and laugh. So love your friend Gertrude, your newest enemy...who was your friend an hour ago until you started resisting each other's ideas.

Lucy: Yes, but...she will think she won! She will think I'm a loser, a wuss...that she's better than I am...that she knows more than I do.

The Lord: My heart, what if all that is true? What if she does think all your worst fears...what if all your worst fears are her truth about you? Fighting her and winning that fight...or never speaking to her again...neither will change what she thinks about you nor will it make you what she thinks. Your resistance is what makes it seem true...to her and to you.

Lucy: Yes, but...I have been loving toward her. I have given over to her. She's just a sore winner. Why should I be the only one to give in?

The Lord: Because the giving in is giving up your own battle...it is not giving in to her, it is giving over to your inner being. It is giving in to get...giving up the battle with yourself who is at the moment named Gertrude, but it is you, Beloved Lucy. And it is you in giving over who will get the peace you long for.

Lucy: Yes, but...I'll be the only one who knows that!

The Lord:

Moral: Lucy must ever believe that she has had the last word. She cannot grasp that the Lord has better sense than to get in a prolonged dialogue with ego.

When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn?

Thank you.

GOD CONSCIOUSNESS...LIFE ITSELF

Blinding flash of the obvious:  Learning to love the less-than-wonderful in life ensures a wonderful mental outlook on life. 

Today's reading in "God Calling" seals the deal...in particular the one sentence: Life is really consciousness of Me.

A wonderful mental outlook on life ensures a fret-free life...a spiritually fit life. There...the spiritually fit life is really consciousness of Me.

I'm getting a wary understanding that the more I am enwrapped in this belief...not from my eyebrows up, but from my heart out...the more reasoning-mind less-thans are going to visit themselves upon me. My life lesson now is to dread them not, but to welcome them as they come calling.

But of course! That is precisely the meaning in the 23rd Psalm of Thou prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies. "Thou" is me...I prepare a place before me in the presence of my enemies. 

Face it, that is I am the source of all my woes which I first heard nearly 50 years ago and have believed for the past 45. How else could I have experienced nearly 20 years of the IRS as a spiritual necessity in my life...which it was, and the memory of it still is.

It's all about trust...trust God, clean house, help others.

Thank you.

REALITY IS OF GOD WITH US, WITHIN US

Blinding flash of the obvious: It is not positive thoughts that determine our fate, it is the reality of God in those thoughts, that is the determiner...God, with us, within us, that we are dependent on whether we know it or not. 

What about our negative thoughts? They, too, determine our fate. Ah, but they are egoically directed downward into the stagnant pool of self-interest. There is no love there.

Positive thoughts are directed, led and guided, by God...for the benefit of all. 

Thank you.

BLINDING FLASH OF THE OBVIOUS, II

The following is a reprint of a BFO of mine first posted on February 9, 2017...it is particularly appropriate to me today:

When there is something that is wrong and you know it and you can see exactly what it is that is wrong and you try to fix it and it does not fix and you try again, harder, and it stays unfixed...you are looking in the wrong direction. You are looking out there...at the problem. Look within. To the solution...spiritual principles. All spiritual principles are within us, have been there since before conception, will be there three days after we are dead...and 1,000 years after the world as we know it is no more, spiritual principles will be in the ether...waiting to be realized and released by a willing soul once again.

Thank you.

GOD CAN...MORE READILY WHEN SOUGHT

Blinding flash of the obvious: Fear of being separated, need to be separate have ruled my life.

Fr Richard has shared that our tendency to isolate ourselves springs from a genuine need for the inner work of contemplation. There again, the bane is the boon...the counterintuitive way of the Lord.

I feel myself opening further to my need for the inner work of contemplation...and I recognize that has been the well-hidden driver and keeper of my heart and Soul my entire life.

Whenever I have that skin's-on-crooked feeling, I know, and I know I know..."God's hand is in this." I was discomfited to learn that some friends heard that as my saying that God was the cause of my upset. Ah, when will we ever learn? I am the source of all of my woes, remembered. 

We are the root of our rues, regrets and remorses, our less-thans. God's hand is in it to pull us through, to bring us to him. God's hand is love's guide.

To know I am One with God is my desire divine...only God can move that to my heart and my Soul. I've got more than enough me-wants, but I have only one need...God's will, God's way. 

Thank you.

NEEDS ARE FULFILLED BY THE FATHER WITHIN

I had a memory-flash yesterday that almost brought me to my crippled knees. It brought with it an answered prayer...the answer I have been seeking for nigh on 50 years.

The background: It was around 1975, and I was with my friend Sylvia who was going blind...we were at Johns Hopkins Hospital for her to receive further analysis and possible treatment. 

Sylvia, who had a fairly public reputation, misplaced a book of our Fellowship that had her ID in it. She completely panicked, yet I completely knew God protected her...that the book would be found with no adverse conditions redounding to her. That is what happened, and I gave my first mental high five to the God of my understanding.   

Because I gutbucket knew that this was God's assurance...that it was not me thinking, "I'll bet God won't let bad happen"...that wafted to my friend who then could nurse a wobbly belief. Another God-gift considering the condition of her eyes and her stress level which was too high already.

Here's today's miracle by way of answered prayer: I had forgotten that happened, yet it is the answer, gift, solution for which I have been seeking for so long....that being for the Lord to let me know He is with me Now...a sign, an insight, a premonition...anything! Yet I have it...have had it since I received it and trusted it for Truth all those years ago. 

It's not that we forget but rather that life adds so much good and less than good that a lot gets swept aside. 

Oh! BFO...that's how we build trust in God to provide the readied-and-right swept aside and the never-before-thought-of as needed. 

Trust and be not afraid.

Thank you.