TO REALIZE OUR AWAITING FATHER WITHIN

Our brain is the housing for our mind...our brain is our safehouse, our mind is the tenant. 

As the tenant, our mind needs a constant infusion of love and that is all. Worry, fret, and frustration give breath to fear which blocks love. 

Self-will cannot deny fear's voice; it does, however, feed it. Again, and yet again: We must go beyond reason to love. 

The paradox is reason cannot get us there, but reason, made welcome, is our within guide to where we must needs go...to our awaiting Father. 

God is now, ever has been, ever will be within on our behalf.

Thank you.

PASS IT ON...AND PRAY THANK YOU

Only the experience of our own darkness gives us the light we need to be of help to others.... -- Sister Joan Chittister

There. That is the well-disguised gift to those in recovery...in the midst of our darkest times, helping others is nowhere near our reasoning mind. 

Unbeknownst to us, God holds it for us in our heart. 

For others...always and forever for others.

How could it be otherwise? 

We have all we need in the God of our own understanding, and that knowing lives in the spiritual urge to Pass It On.

Thank you.

MY NEMESIS, MY FRIEND,1

[The following is a reprint of my post of July 1, 2016.]

We must needs come to believe unto knowing unto living the truth that hides within us...that our worst fear is our best friend. We hate yet hold to this truth as we realize that nothing else could or would, can or will, goose us to God more consistently...or imperatively.

There...the pain and the peace of God's perfect will.

Thank you.

RIGHT ROAD, RIGHT DIRECTION...LOVE & LAUGH

I am beginning to recognize all...or many...of the truths I intuited over the years are alive and dictating my life right now. 

Hard truths that I have come to realize and accept...in my head...are now marching me around, speaking loud and clear in my ear. Usually after the fact...meaning, I find myself humbled by my unwitting thought, word or action, and when I inventory me later, I can see with a forgiving eye.

There it is...God calling.

Just yesterday I realized that being isolated by the pandemic put me back in my unhealthy comfort zone. I am a loner, and I have a self-enclosed need to stay alone...even as I realize my need for others in my life, I struggle against my inner resistance.

Today, I know God knows my needs...self-determined objectives need not apply. God can and will set my feet on the right road, heading in the right direction...loving and laughing.

Lord, hear my prayer: Thank You.

Thank you.

ON KNOWING BUT KNOWING NOT WHAT

In rites of initiation we teach people that they have to go down before they can possibly go up.*** We have to be swallowed by something bigger than ourselves. *** We have to go into a place where we are not in control, where we can’t fix it, explain it, understand it, or even like it. -- Paraphrased from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, July 11, 2025

That I believe, and I believe with as much humility as I have been gifted.

Beginning at 3:00 AM, Wednesday, April 30th, either my rites of initiation began, or I experienced an awake nightmare. Common sense is betting on the nightmare, but spiritual growth is smiling so I'm leaning toward her.

The active experience lasted from April 30 until approximately May 7. Since then, I have felt rock steady, rocketed into orbit, upside-down and backward...yet I have never considered backing off. I felt my feelings without judging, labeling, denying, exaggerating...we're talking grace, pure grace, and I am grateful from my toes to my nose. 

Through it all, I have experienced fear but never doubt. I have been pushed, pulled, directed and misdirected, but I figured if I was in the process of transitioning, I'd best let it...whatever was to come, let it...and pray thank You...which I did and do.

Knowing but knowing not what...is the best I can describe my experience. 

It may be that we will ever be in transition, that there is no set place we get to except a mind at peace. A peaced mind in the midst of our world at war with itself is spiritual growth perfected.

Thank you.

OPENED BY GOD REALIZATION

 My oft-times repeated blinding flash of the obvious is back again; namely, our problem is never the named thing, it is our fear of the named thing. 

The named thing changes with our inner response to outer circumstances...or our self-centered fear (and isn't all fear self-centered?).  Reminds me of the saying everything old is new again for it is a denied fact that fear is always the instigator of our perceived problems. 

How long ago it was that we realized there are only two human emotions. i.e., love and fear. All other feelings, emotions, etc., are just cover, masquerading as real. Continuing spiritual growth can, will and does eradicate them...as we turn within to our spiritual center.  

The only holdback is our want to...do we truly want to be free? 

We must determine within our own self what free mean to us, personally. My free is not necessarily another's free...when we realize that our personal dig begins. 

Begins within...deeper. Ah, there be the rub. 

We cannot find our free-of-self in a book even if it is the Bible we're reading. Our free is already within us, and its true name is God.

We recognize that seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things shall be added unto you are just so many words unless and until we are opened by God-realization.

Thank you.

FORWARD TOWARD THE RED SEA, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of July 15, 2018.]

As I picked up my pen to journal this morning, my guardian angel Aslan wrote, If the path you are walking is fear filled and you're meeting a lot of your own 'No, Never' and they're now 'Well, OK' and your stomach seems constantly atremble and your hands, too, and it seems you're ever doubting your own self...welcome, Beloved, you are on the right path.

To which I say, Who knew? This is the way to hold-your-nose-and-take-a-leap-of-faith that is required for still more spiritual growth? Well, OK.

Thank you.