FOR AMERICA...BY GOD'S GRACE

Blinding flash of the obvious: For America. This seemingly bedeviled time that we are living through is for America...by grace and by God for the melting pot of America.

We honor the inner self which is for good forever, and in today's consciousness, specifically, for the good of America. Grateful we are to God as God pulls us through the muck and mire of the current consciousness of monied self-interest that greed has produced. 

Many of us have committed to dedicate three minutes of silent time each morning toward God's perfect healing of America. All are invited to join us as we silently say For America, and whatever flows from our consciousness then is from God for our country.

Whether we know it or not, God has already healed the perceived problem...we are in the process of realizing unto doing our part for our country. The consciousness of each of us is being raised with our only concern now being to know it and show it...silently we step out in faith for our country.

Our self-protective shield has been stripped away as we embrace God's will, God's way with grace and gratitude for America.

Thank you.

GOD WILL FLOW FORTH, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 18, 2014.]

Trying too hard to "get it" is as detrimental to spiritual growth as dismissing it all as happy talk. Mainly because we can't get spiritual growth. Seeking to get is the ego-victory mind determining and dictating. As long as that is the case, we will be seeking our wants...dressed up pretty with a lot of spiritual-sounding words, but they will still be wants.

Wants are of the ego, needs are of God.

We have within, at our core, the Spirit...God. If we are seeking still more spiritual growth, our need is to detach from our reasoning mind, go to our center, and open our heart, our mind, our Soul. God will flow forth...in Its own good time.

According to me.

Thank you.

OLD MADE NEW...PEACE AS SPIRITUAL REALITY

This [so-called negative] faith ... is not a moral code or an ideology or a quarrel. It is rather a performance of transformation, of old made new, of lost found, of dead made alive. -- Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann 

Walking this "negative faith" that I'm now experiencing is the test...here's me thinking that coming to believe in it was the hard part. It wasn't easy, but it was a cakewalk compared to living it. The last two days of my walking it is my confirmation...meaning that nothing was "going my way." 

The good news is I pray my thank you with every less-than breath I take...the equally good news is I smile at my disgruntled feeling as I pray thank you.

What we tend to forget or discount is the material mind...it is always with us, is always ready to forge ahead with or without our consent. Not resisting it is the spiritual stumper-lesson. 

Yesterday, I had the equivalent of a Bad Day at Black Rock, the events of which I shared with a friend, and touched it no more. Went to bed, slept very well, awoke this morning feeling fine. Got up, and every step I took, every move I made seemed to be a foreordained misstep. 

Never forgetting my thank you, I did take a timeout to ponder if I might be into self-will, or if this is the higher level of consciousness that I recently realized. 

I recalled Fr Richard saying, We don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong, and I was peaced...primarily because I saw all my so-called wrongs were gifts. Gifts for my spiritual growth...just another necessary lesson learned.

New adage: We don't get lessons learned all sugar-coated and wrapped in rainbows. That comes later...wrapped in spiritual reality when we're doing it right.

God's will, God's way needs no sugarcoat...peace as reality comes with a smile.

Thank you.

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 eyes and shine.

Thank you.

GOD IS WITH US, WITHIN US, FOR OUR BENEFIT

When a good therapist, a wise and holy (meaning whole or healed) person, or a totally accepting friend becomes our chosen mirror, we are, in fact, being healed! -- Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, January 27, 2025

Today's Daily Meditation is a direct answer to the anxiety I awoke this morning feeling...fear filled, actually. 

While my belly hung fire, my head knew it for not only today's political atmosphere, which is affecting all of us whether we know it or not, but the various personal to me non-answered to-dos hanging over my head, i.e., taxes/correction and need to get a tax preparer, plus the car which is in the middle of being cleaned up, plus the dailies of 80s. 

In re feelings, belly on fire takes the lead over head knowledge every time. There's my thank you: That is what faith is for, to bring us back to the peace that passes understanding.

Faith it is that recognizes reality: I truly am on the cusp of egoic mind/higher consciousness. Reasoning mind is the ego's home and sometimes right on target, i.e., giving a feeling of safety; but I am, and have been since I began seeking still more spiritual growth, being raised higher than reasoning...up to spiritual, to God-sense. Without reason's safety-net answer up to spiritual's faith on the hoof is God's will, God's way. 

It does feel scary, that's why what I read each day seems to be a direct answer to my fear-filled thoughts...wait! It's not seems to be, it is a direct answer. God does know before it happens on the material plane exactly what we need...our peace is already waiting for us to hold our nose and take the leap of faith that we learned of so many years ago.

God is with us, within us, on our side and for our benefit always and all ways...thank You.

Thank you.

STAYING IN THE NOW...BY GRACE AND BY GOD

Some time ago, I wrote with our thank you, we accept all that comes our way by letting it pass on by. As mentioned, that was written some time ago...I am still learning how to. 

The big surprise to me is that is good...the spiritual lesson is that slowly is how we learn God's will, God's way. Then when we get it, it feels like a blinding flash of the obvious. 

Looking back, I get that this is an example of head-truth versus living-it truth. From my eyebrows up, I wrote Truth, but my feet hesitated to head in that direction...it's as though my toes were tacked to the floor.

I'm slowly accepting that all the "betterment" I pray for is already bettered. I am as good as I am going to get right now. Ah, the secret of a happy life probably lives in now. 

To live in the now is close to perfection. The big lesson we're learning is that perfection is of God thus a whole different way of life than we know. 

My incurable, progressive disease was the bane of my life until God took it up...and now it is my pearl beyond price, the gold standard of my heart and soul.

I think of today's political situation, and I know the first thing I need is to stay my head and heart in the now by praying thank you. Then I can do the next thing and, by grace and by God, accept all that comes by letting it pass on by.

Thank you.

FINDING SPIRITUALITY THROUGH THE NEGATIVE

Entering the spiritual search for truth and for ourselves through the so-called negative, dealing squarely with what is—in ourselves, in others, or in the world around us—takes all elitism out of spirituality. —Richard Rohr

The following (an entry by Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis in Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today) describes a spiritual want-to/need of mine:

What is a starting place to look at the world through someone else’s eyes and have empathy for them?… Who’s the one person that you want to understand better and want to learn from and perhaps also teach? Pick a person to start with. I’m not saying go to the person that will make you feel in danger or in harm, but somebody who can be a conversation partner about what love needs to be now for all of us. Will you consider that one person and then maybe another who can increase your tribe, help you to see things differently, help you to love more profoundly? A neighbor, not exactly like you, but a neighbor, nonetheless. Let’s try that, won’t you? ...Dare we? Dare I?

Thank you.