LION TO LAMB, I

[The following is a reprint, slightly reworked, of my post of April 1, 2013.]

My morning blinding flash of the obvious: I am the lion to the Lord's lamb.

It is the lion that must learn to give over, to restrain self, to train self through the lamb to accept, not resist, the lamb…to become like the lamb.

To become the Lamb.

Thank you.

ANSWERED PRAYERS...BELIEVE, SIMPLY BELIEVE

First, we are taught that what we seek we already have, and finally we come to believe that...or believe that we believe that. Comes now the proving of it...the test of how deep our belief goes. Is it deep enough for us to live what we say we have, ask and it shall be given you, seek and ye shall find?

Is to seek what we already have to deny what we have? Or is it fear of accepting that we have it? But how exactly do we live what we say we have? The answer is from Fr Richard: ...the most important way is to live and fully acknowledge our present reality. 

As a still aborning believer, I am comforted in asking for the consciousness of Christ Jesus, for as much of that consciousness as I am readied for, and only God knows that depth. In my quiet time this morning, I asked for precisely that...to walk the raised consciousness I already have even as I seek it. 

I love that I was led to that quote I had saved:

How do we find what is supposedly already there? Why should we need to awaken our deepest and most profound selves? How do we do it? By praying and meditating? By more silence, solitude, and sacraments? Yes to all of the above, but the most important way is to live and fully acknowledge our present reality. --  Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, March 15, 2024 

Answered prayers.

Thank you. 

A PRAYER FOR ALL, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 19, 2015.]

"Today may there be peace within. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us." -- Anonymous to me

Thank you.

REASONING MIND LIFTED UP...THANK YOU

A Rabbinic text from the ninth century declares that every person is accompanied, at all times, by a procession of angels crying out, 'Make way, for an image of the Holy One is approaching!'  

Every time I come across that quote, I shiver in awe ... sometimes in hopes of the truth of it and sometimes trying to picture the truth of it. There, my reasoning mind trying to raise me up...I hug her, I kiss her, and I whisper thank you as I let her float/fly. 

Comforting lesson learned...our reasoning mind is on our side; she just needs to remain in the backseat to our still-evolving spiritual sense. What peace...to know a friend in reasoning mind. Now I welcome friendship in egoic mind. 

Or...here's a better thought...our reasoning mind is one in the procession of angels accompanying us, making way for the Holy One. That being so, our egoic mind cannot be far behind as one in that same procession of angels.

Earlier, as I was being stripped of my old and welcoming my new realization of reasoning mind, I had a mini blinding flash...the thought eased up from my Soul, and I knew: I am not alone. 

Ah, my reasoning mind is working her new wings for my spiritual growth. She is with me, within me, for me... I am not alone.

Thank you.  

ON LOVING...WITHOUT CONSCIOUS EFFORT

Until we love and until we suffer, we all try to figure out life and death with our minds.,,.We cannot sincerely love another or forgive offenses inside of dualistic consciousness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditations, May 26, 2024

We are brought back again...and repeatedly and no doubt till three days after we're dead...back to the words of Thaddeus Golas: We must go beyond reason to love.

It takes a long time to realize that the love Golas refers to is not just walking-around love but love in all its forms...from the dualistic mind to higher consciousness.

We are born with a dualistic mind. When we find we must make a decision to seek still more spiritual growth, our world changes. That decision leads us away from either/or thinking toward higher consciousness...when we see the Father and I are one. 

With still more spiritual growth, we begin to accept the niggling idea that there are no mistakes...there are only opportunities to learn. We keep coming back until we get it right.  

God alone decides when we get it right. 

Thank you.

RESIST NOT LOVE...AH, THE JUGGERNAUT

 Blinding flash of the obvious: It is not giving love that I resist, it is getting love that I fear. 

It is our fear of getting love that blocks the unconditional love of God...it is why we cannot feel the love we so earnestly seek...which is already ours.

This is not new news to us, but it comes now at a deeper level higher. Our inner definition of love is being upgraded...lifted from our human understanding of love for parents, siblings, friends, loves and lovers...to a higher consciousness. 

Our journey now is to seek love as lived by Jesus, Allah, the Buddha...God. To love God...to love AS God. That search incorporates familial, etc., love which is a necessity to us in our walking-around world.

This is not to ponder, analyze, study...it is to accept, and full acceptance will take as long as it takes. We accept that these possibly are just words right now but they are in the birth canal. 

We are awakened...still groggy but awake. Let it be. 

Love and laugh.

Thank you. 

ONLY ONE THING IS NECESSARY...BE PRESENT

As we become more attuned to the Father within, the God of our own understanding, our spiritual growth becomes less dependent on our thoughts about Truth and more reliant on a new realization of Truth.

The major change needed is how we do the moment. We find the answer to that is accepting the moment changes by the moment...duh. Ah, but so does our understanding. We are no longer held back by the inactive question, How? We are timidly living our newly birthed trust now. 

The change comes not through our thinking but through our consciousness. Trust is just a word if we're sitting in silence with our unfocused thoughts about trust running wild.

With our thank you, we return our thoughts to God. Sometimes we receive blinding flashes of the obvious, other times silence, but a comforting silence that all is well. We are present to the present.

'Only one thing is necessary,' Jesus says. 'If you are present, you will be able to know what you need to know.' -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, May 24, 2024

Thank you.