OUR MINDSET EXCHANGED FOR GOD'S

The mystic can never be certain that union with God will be the outcome of longing for God. They must rest in unknowing. * * * And yet that emptiness, that waiting, that liminal space is sacred. -- Mirabai Starr, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, March 7, 2025

This way, i.e., resting in the unknowing, previously accepted by me as waiting on the Spirit to move me, I can now accept as my eyes being lifted...to see anew.

It is not that I did nothing when "waiting." I've inner known (before realizing) that this was not a self-determined want but somehow a need, ergo of God because quite simply it fit me. 

This then is the a result of the long-ago commitment I made to seek still more spiritual growth in all things that come to me. The majority of the time I have succeeded...that's 51 percent of the time, hitting sometimes higher, never lower. 

To seek still more spiritual growth in all things that come to me became real when I accepted that my spiritual growth was most often realized when I looked back...usually with regrets. The God-change came when I looked back and saw the results of my regrets had benefitted another. To see God's finished product, our name not even on it, is the pearl beyond price.

What a gift it is to look back and realize, or just glimpse, spiritual growth in much of our daily life born of our reasoning mind's rues, regrets and remorses. 

We very likely receive our greatest gift when our mindset is exchanged for God's.

Thank you.

FEEL THE FEAR, TRUST...LOVE AND LAUGH

Blinding flash of the obvious: We are the host; fear is the supplicant.

We openly welcome fear without bravado or hoopla; we show it our welcome as royalty shows commoners courtesy...in peace. 

I ponder my BFO. It is not the object of our fear, dementia, that is the source of our disturbance.  It is our fear of what unknown thoughts, feelings, behaviors can be wrought by dementia.

The question is: Can God lift us above the acts brought by dementia? 

In short, are all my pre-80 beliefs shot down by age? Including my favorite, With God all things are possible. 

My question: Are they? Are all things possible with God? 

My answer: I must needs live it to find out. Or, SOSO, same old same old (that's God in mufti).

I believe that I believe the only thing I need strengthen is my faith in the God of my understanding. The God that lives in my heart, my soul, my body and my brain. Living there, the Father and I are one'd. 

Are these just words, then, after all? Here's the fact of the matter: I have no choice but to live my life just as it comes from me...I would need to change my whole life structure not to believe, not to trust. That would not be of God, that would be self-will on the hoof. 

Trust...why would that which has walked me through my life to date, not now? God cannot not be with me, so I do what I know is God's will, God's way for me. I trust and be not afraid...or I be afraid.

Fear will not keep God away...nothing brings God to me faster than fear. Feel the fear and love and laugh. 

Thank you. 

PEOPLE SOBBING WITHOUT SOUND

[The following is from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, March 5, 2025. I read it and felt a tingling in my gut for I see it telling the future for each and every one of us in this world.]

The Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha expresses the devastation of grief and the longing for peace:

I wish I could wake up and find the electricity on all day long.
I wish I could hear the birds sing again, no shooting and no
buzzing drones.
I wish my desk would call me to hold my pen and write again,
or at least plow through a novel, revisit a poem, or read a play.
All around me are nothing
but silent walls.

and people sobbing

without sound.

God bless us all, everyone. 

Thank you.

THE FATHER AND I ARE ONE'D

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. -- 23rd Psalm

This morning's blinding flash of the obvious revisited: Because the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want, I have enough. I shall never not have enough.

I have enough even should the likes of dementia, poverty, incurable disease come to me...enough gets me to God who supplies any and all needs...not wants, needs.

To feel a need is spiritual recognition of God's presence knocking. I pray thank You and am one'd...by my raised consciousness, the Father and I are one'd.

Thank you.

I BELIEVE I BELIEVE...AND THANK YOU

What items from the past are tied to unprocessed grief? -- Pixie Lighthorse in Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today

I have long inner realized, but never eyebrows-up known, that my brother's death dictated my inner self back then and in some manner no doubt to this day. 

I have been to therapy more than a couple of times, yet I do not recall ever mentioning Paul's death...or my trauma around it. Not on purpose not mentioning...it simply did not occur to me. 

There...that is an inner on purpose which I choose to accept as God's will, God's way. We, God and I, knew I needed to get my spiritual growth from within, and be it ever so slow to my reasoning mind, I am growing at God's perfect speed for me. 

I feel comfortably assured that I will keep coming back till I get it right...I can look forward to my next life as me hard slogging with a wholly peaced mind. Ah, my fantasies, I love them!

Lighthorse also assures us the underground river within each of us is becoming more conscious. 

My reasoning mind shrugs but does not resist. I believe I believe...that is close enough to perfect for me. 

Thank you.

NOT TO DISCOVER BUT TO RETRIEVE, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 30, 2013.]

It is such a comfort to me, when a problem looms, to remind myself that that problem has already been solved.

I usually want to get in the midst of it, figure it out (to my advantage), get all concerned to agree with me, but I need to quiet my mind, to listen. To listen...not for the answer to my perceived problem (for in God's world, there is no problem), but for the discipline of simply sitting quietly and listening.

As Fr. Richard Rohr writes, "...spiritual knowledge is more like retrieving than discovering."

Whatever answer we need (which likely has not an iota to do with what we're thinking we need) will come to us. That answer may look less than wonderful and a butt-biter into the bargain, but it is, in truth, our gold mine.

All we need remember is the promise: "Be not afraid...it is I."

Thank you.

THE ART OF ACCEPTANCE...LET GO AND LET GOD

To help us understand Meister Eckhart’s teaching that we are the image of God: Eckhart says, 'The image owes no allegiances to anything except that of which it is the image.'… There is nothing that has the authority to say what it is except that of which it is the image. And so it is with us, Eckhart says, that we are the image of God. Without God, we are nothing, absolutely nothing. -- Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, February 28, 2025

I read that and understood it completely...so I pondered it and lost any understanding at all. And so far, have not gotten it back. 

The art of acceptance: Think not, let.

Thank you.