TWO WAYS TO SEE ONE THING, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 24, 2016.]

I just read an old note I wrote in my "God Calling," and it thrilled me to my toes. All I had written was, Yesterday, I gave over to John in a very small but ego-denying way. Thank you.

I made note of it because I had just started the big turn from thinking any giving over was proof I was gutless and would never be able to stand up for myself, take my own part, know and show that I'm just as good as anyone...the poor-pitiful-put-upon-me list drags on.

I'm glad I date my notes and that I made note of this because, in truth, it isn't all that old. In my mind, I've been doing this for a long, long time..."this" being giving over. And there it is...that is my ah-ha. I've given over for a long, long time, only I've just begun to realize it as God's better way and not ego's wimp-out.

This is proof again that there are two ways of looking at every one thing...through our ego's eyes and whine or through God's and bask in sunshine.

Thank you.

ON LIVING A TURNED-OVER LIFE, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 29, 2018.]

Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. -- Psalm 127

So the difference between 'the boys and the men' is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God. -- Anonymous

So the difference between relying on the reasoning mind and relying on spiritual consciousness is the difference between striving to build our inner house by our own devices and not striving but trusting our Father within to perfectly lead us through the building and then our living therein.

According to me.

Thank you.

WE GO TO GOD FOR GOD AND THAT IS ALL

Thought: Oh, Lord, I am ashamed of me. 

Answering blinding flash of the obvious: Your shame is My glory. 

We show God's glory by releasing our shame with thank You...in gratitude to God for God. An attitude of gratitude is The Way.

Shame is an ego trip as it keeps us tied to self...trying to "fix" us all on our own.

We go to God for God and that is All.

Thank you.

SEEK LESS...ON THIS NOTHING WE NOW LIVE, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 31, 2022.]

You have come to that point in consciousness where you are seeking for what the world calls the intangible. When you came to a spiritual teaching, you knew in advance, or soon learned, that you were going to obtain nothing in the external realm. What you were seeking was the Invisible, that which cannot be seen, heard, or known. And yet you were seeking to be able to see, hear, and know just that. Through that seeking, you are coming to know that which is unknowable, see that which is invisible, hear that which is inaudible. And on this Nothing you now live. -- Joel Goldsmith, "Leave Your Nets"

We go to God for God...and that is All.

Thank you.

I GOT IT! HOLD NEAR: JUST FOR TODAY, I GOT IT

...you have to let God reveal your real faults to you, usually by falling many times, and by other people's opinions of you. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 29, 2015

In a shortened sentence, there is our worst fear exposed as God's will, God's way. For that truth to walk free in our head and our heart requires that we change our mind. 

Ah, there it is...the basic truth of still more spiritual growth: We cannot change our mind on want alone. Our want is self-will in camouflage...seemingly God's perfect will which benefits all, but underneath entirely for our benefit.

I'm convinced the only "cure" for that is to love it and laugh...then laugh more when our "love it" flips us the bird.

I'm convinced still more spiritual growth requires our complete capitulation to God's will, God's way without our knowing what that will show itself to be. For our good, of course, but who's kidding whom, God's will for our good rarely, if ever, comes looking good to our reasoning mind.

Again, we get The Answer: We must go beyond reason to God.

Leave Your Nets and Follow Me...I get it! From my eyebrows up, I've thought I got it, but today, It got me! Now, to remember: Just for today. Just for today I got it. 

Thank You, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and all my angels.

Thank you.

GOD'S GIFT: A BLINDING FLASH OF THE OBVIOUS

Know this: Our problem is never the named thing; it is fear of the named thing. -- 8/24/24 BFO

That blinding flash of the obvious was the Spirit's gift to me on my anniversary in 2024.

I posted it then; I post it now. I love it.

Thank you.

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

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 21, 2019.]

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.