WHATEVER COMES...IS OF GOD

Yesterday's post was all about coming to realization of truth and the many detours, U-bies, wrong turns, etc., we must take to get there. The real lesson being that is the right way, and that right way is what we fight. Our ego does not recognize "wrong turns" unless they are made by others.

With the journey toward realization in mind, I lay out my today's God Calling notes:

1986 - my mind connected today that I, the Christ, am Nancy, who appears today to be my nemesis...the lesson is to love the nemesis, not to win over it, or to beat it at its own game, but to love it. Agree with your adversary quickly is my goal.

1998  - ditto to way more than Nancy (I forget who Nancy was!) today.

2014 - ditto again...gold in the crucible

2018 - Yes! Again....thank you.

I need not continue writing my updates...there'll ever be more for which today I can be grateful. Gratitude brings peace which is acceptance by another name.

It is true...acceptance does bring peace of mind. A troubled mind goes on the attack, and there it is. Our own attack mind is the source of our woes and rues. Face it, an attack mind is ego's solution to any mind-muddle be it a personal problem or world affairs.

We are on the road to freedom when we realize that which and/or whom we are resisting is not our problem. No. Our resistance is the worm worrying our innards. It is our resistance that we must needs surrender to.

Paradox Alert! It is in our surrender that we find the dreaded peace of powerlessness.

In surrender, our thoughts are transmuted, and divine mind enfolds us...whatever comes is of God...and we find the peace that passes understanding.

Thank you.

ALL SUCCESS LIES IN LOVE, JOY, PEACE

Love, Joy, Peace, welcome these. Let no personal feelings, no thoughts of self banish these. Singly, they are miracle-producing in a life, but together, they can command all that is needed on the physical, mental and spiritual planes.

It is in these wonder-realm attributes, all success lies. You have to see your inner lives are all they should be, and then the work is accomplished. Not in rushing and striving on the material plane, but on the battlefield of the Soul are these things won. -- God Calling, January 30

I first "got" those paragraphs in 1978...I've  "got" them again, and repeatedly, over the years. I have underlined and highlighted them almost to unreadable. Yet here's me today, again feeling as if I am, for the first time, truly understanding their meaning.

This is the process that takes me to realization (and to self-acceptance): First it must be accepted by the reasoning-mind, then it moves deeper to a higher level, then deeper yet, and still deeper, continuing unto realization. (As to self-acceptance, until I quit fighting myself for not nailing it forever the first time, I remained stuck in self, trying to make it acceptable to my ego...a useless, but necessary step.)

Once we surrender to, i.e., accept, that fact, the next time when it slaps us upside the head and we're wonder struck with the real truth of it, we can love and laugh and feel good all over...we are experiencing our promised Love, Joy, Peace.

Can't wait for the next time I get to love and laugh with me and my I Got It feeling.

Thank you.

ON LOVING THOSE WHO HATE US

Blinding flash of the obvious: The one who slanders me is the one I need to praise. (By praise, I suspect that means we need to get, be and remain grateful for.)

The minute that came to me, I consciously elevated my thoughts, and I saw slanderers, per se, in a new light.

If it is true that everything works together for our  good, then how can we dislike, fear, slander anyone? Especially on the excuse of “payback.”

This may all be incidental to me and God’s special gift to her…fulfilling a fear he must needs face, and I’m the perfect (imperfect?) vehicle.

The Father knows my needs…and hers...and his...and theirs. God is so good to us.

Thank you.

WHEN BEING WRONG IS ALRIGHT

The following are notes to myself from December 21, 2017, that particularly speak to me today more than ever:

Per George Will, We are addicted to indignation and This is the year of living splenetically. Further, he quotes Eric Hoffer: The intellectual cannot operate at room temperature, and We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

SIDEBAR: Having never heard of Hoffer or the word splenetically, I had to Google them. Admittedly, that's no doubt why I don't read George Will regularly, but when I do and find ideas I agree with, I'm grateful he's available to us. Further, for those in the dark as I was, Eric Hoffer was an American writer on social and political philosophy, and splenetically, I found, means angrily, spitefully - marked by bad temper or spite. The chances of my ever using the word after this are slim to nil since obviously I'd just be putting on airs...which I'm not averse to doing just not when everybody'd know it.

Back to my thoughts. I am taken with Will's words today because this is a full year plus weeks later, and the proof of our splenetic year is in our daily life. Whether we are For or Against...makes no never mind...our lives seem to be fueled by indignation. We truly are living splenetically...and I'm saying, if Will is right, that it is our addiction that is our problem. It may be addiction to indignation, but addiction is the key, and our own personal addiction that must needs be addressed. 

Remember Hoffer's words about lying the loudest when we lie to ourselves? And there it is, our problem. We lie to our self when we call our rigid, righteous and right reason for indignation the problem. It is not. It is our rigid, righteous and right lie to our self that is the problem. We have made I'm right, you're wrong the God of our own understanding, and still more spiritual growth a thing of our past. 

It was Jung who said addiction is nothing more nor less than a search for the spiritual. If that be true, and I believe it is, then why not put our indignation to use searching for the spiritual...the spiritual in our own self that is living in resistance. 

Can I get a Thank You for the other side? For the Wrong ones? And it need not be a heartfelt thank you. God doesn't care if we believe it or not...we say thank you, and cosmically we are changed. It is rare that we immediately realize it, but as we keep praying our thank you, gratitude fills us...and we are freed from our own indignant self. 

We are already being led out just because we came to believe....

Thank you.

ON ENTRY INTO GOD'S HIDEY-HOLE WITHIN

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.... -- from the 23rd Psalm

The valley of the shadow of death is whatever we are resisting...and, face it, resistance is fear. Say that in our daily walking-around life, we realize that whatever we are fearing boils down to, plain speak, a hassle. It is what that hassle represents that brings fear on the gallop. 

For instance, I just got a new car, and yesterday I drove it down the block to the grocer. Coming back I noticed something looked off in one of the the instrument panel thingies...which is as much as I know about it. 

This morning my thoughts are on the gallop. I can state, flatly and assuredly, that when our thoughts are on the gallop, they have made the turn into foreboding, and ego is riding herd and/or hard.

Glory Be! Here come my angels to save my day. I am reminded that first thing I do is calm my thoughts run amok...turn them with a thank you which gives them over to my angels for pondering. And right off, there's a sliver of light, reminding me that resistance is the shadow, the foreboding thoughts that block our peace which is of God. 

Resistance is the shadow...the shadow is the foreboding thoughts...foreboding thoughts block my peace...my peace is of God...which is God...which resists not but loves all.

In place of my resistant thoughts to my completely undriveable new car with its unfixable instrument thingie with all the insurmountable expenses that will entail, I can call Seven On Your Side.

Better, I can know that no matter how bass-ackward that new car may be, all the hassles that it may bring to me, my peace in meeting those hassles will hone my entry into God's hidey hole within.

Best, I can enjoy the feeling of profound gratitude for this opportunity to sit and wait on the Lord, preparing myself to love and laugh at his having already intervened on my behalf here, now and ever.

God is so good to me...to us.

Thank you.

ENEMY IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR I

Thank you for my everything just as it is right this very minute...the seen and the unseen.

To be clear, my everything is more about the unknown oncoming than the known here-and-now. The knowns are the goodies we can see (or others can see and envy, whispers my ego Lucy With The Football). Ah, but the unknowns, the feared what ifs, that which maybe out-in-the-ether that we know naught of, but, what if...? Thank you.

Then there are the unseens that fall into the God-only-knows...literally...category. We cannot know what gifts God has for us out there in the pipeline. We don't even consider what, or even that, they may be...how can we when they aren't...yet? Thank you.

If we give a thought to what God may have already gifted us with, that has not yet appeared, we're likely to go from hope for gold to dread of poverty, because we've learned, like Fitzgerald's rich, God is different from you and me. His gifts often appear to our rational mind to be dirtballs. Then we get to the other side, and there find that which we feared has materialized into our personal pearl of great price. That is when we realize love...that we personally have love within us, and it is God.

Comes the light, the greatest of God's gifts to us, his  love of our own self personally, is only realized as ours when, and if and when, we pass it on. Pass it on to everyone...friend, of course, but enemy more so and more so.

According to me, the Sermon on the Mount is the How-To-Manual for doing love of others...all others. Hey...here comes a blinding flash of the obvious: There are no others! The Father and I are One...which is true for every single soul in the universe. We are One...enemy is just another word for I.

I Am that I Am.

Thank you.

WE SERVE TO BEAR WITNESS

Take away my difficulties that victory over them may bear witness to those I would serve of Your love, Your power and Your way of life. -- Anonymous

When we give our thanks to God for everything just as it is right this very minute, that includes our difficulties. With our thanks, we receive peace in our heart, and we repeat our thanks until we know that peace...most likely, with our difficulties still in place, but transmuted through peace.

Knowing that peace frees us to ponder other spiritual things, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Ah, and light breaks...the pursuit of happiness is where our free will lives...where we get to make our choice: God or gold?

Our spiritual growth reminds us that God it is, not gold, that takes away our difficulties, not by lifting them out of us, making them disappear without a trace. No. God takes away our difficulties through and by our staying our focus on God alone. 

We can give up the pursuit of our fantastical dreams...winning the Oscar without ever acting, being the discoverer of how to make healthy out of plastic. We can, however, use those dreams...dumbed down a tish, of course...as in, grow up, Lamb-chop. We seek God with a will, while we hold the goal to do our good in order to bear witness to others of Your way of life. 

Without that goal, we're apt to be proving the truth of Einstein's statement that doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, defines insanity. With that goal, we're living out the perfect objective which is of God...by serving others, we improve our self.

To put a fairly fine point on it, this within-goal improves our walking-around world. Face it, a goalless person is a rudderless person...been there, done that, no thanks. Besides which, He goes before us to make the crooked places straight.

Thank you.