FOR THE UNFORGIVING...PLEASE & THANK YOU

I'm having less than loving thoughts about our president this morning. I have been led to my blog right after the killings in New Town, CN, which I need again...or still:

My uncomprehending thoughts and my deepest prayers are for his soul. Pray God it does rest in peace. I have prayed for Hitler's soul, for Ted Bundy's, I pray for this man's...as has been said before, else what's forgiveness for.  

This morning, I pray the same for America's president...and for those of us unforgiving Americans. 

Please and thank You.

Thank you.   

LOVE AND LAUGHTER...GOD'S PANACEA FOR LIFE

Blinding flash of the obvious: We need resist not our fears and dreads for they are the rough and rugged that plows our field of inner resistance and lifts us up to God. 

I suspect that all desire for other than still more spiritual growth is a desire for a self-determined objective, a want in fact. The want can seem...and sound...spiritually motivated, without any selfish for-me in it. But of course it is...for me. If it is as spiritually exalted as I'm feeling that it is, it has already been done and done repeatedly since 0 B.C.  

That is not all bad, and a better habit to have than finding fault with everything. We just need be aware that it is of self, not a secret directive from God. Ah, unless it is. 

That fairly well explains why still more spiritual growth is never ending. Rule of thumb: If it makes common sense, we're probably going down that wrong road again. 

Paradox: If it makes common sense, we're probably going down that wrong road again, but if it doesn't make a lick of sense, we're probably going down that wrong road again. 

My experience is that I usually know for certain sure God's will for me when I look back at my life. I see, I realize, I've been led when I felt the most unsure. When I had to hold my nose and take a leap of faith...and as often as not, felt the immediate result was wrong, as in: I shoulda, woulda, coulda, and where were You when I needed You?

Here's me in my 80s now, looking back at my life, and I honestly know I have lived a good life, a blessed life, a life I can rest at peace with. Purely and simply because the God of my understanding is, was, ever has been in my life...whether I knew it or not.

The path I walked was God-led all the while...including the detours His gift of free will allowed me, which I learned to make amends for with love and laughter.

Love and laughter...God's panacea for life.

Thank you. 

GUIDE DOGS...GOD'S OWN, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of August 19, 2020.]

We don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. -- Fr Richard Rohr

I love that quote because it is the essence of counterintuitive. According to me, life is counterintuitive. I wonder, is that God's plan? No. I'm counterintuitively certain that it is not since God is not in the future, not in the past, is only here and now...a plan as such is not possible.

That may be why mystics and prophets, pastors and popes...and guide dogs...are necessary. The mystical discern more through spiritual consciousness than through the reasoning mind. Which is never 100 percent right, but nothing on this earth is...they just head us in a better direction. And guide dogs are of God with no need to discern.

Face it, the Sermon on the Mount is counterintuitive...which in this case, plain and simple, is ego deflation in depth. The same is true of the Steps we take when we seek to live an unselfed life. Right down in the dirt, an unselfed life means to go beyond reason to love.

That is the essence of counterintuitive...beyond reason. Maybe the only place beyond reason is love. It is fear that it is insanity that builds the egoic mind's mouse trap.

When we seek so hard to Do It Right...to never step on another's toes, to never bad-mouth another, to always let snarks and snubs fly right on by...we're heading in the wrong direction...we are relying on our reasoning mind. There is nothing counterintuitive about never, always and should. There is no God there either.

To live an unselfed life is to live and breathe by the unfathomable Word of God. Or, to go beyond reason to love. And few there be who wholly succeed...to try is its own reward. I'm hoping.

Thank you.

GO BEYOND REASON...TO GOD

If you follow the example of Jesus and listen for your destiny and fate, you will have to go your own way, adapting the simple, radical teachings to your own calling and circumstances. You will evoke the kingdom in your own style, making your own life a tiny mustard seed, cultivating the weeds of your thoughts, making yourself the embodiment of the moral beauty and spiritual intelligence found in the Gospels. -- Author and psychotherapist Thomas Moore

In short, if you follow the example of Jesus and listen for your destiny and fate, you can and will, safely, go beyond reason to love...to God.

Thank you.

GOD...ENTIRELY HEART FELT, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 23, 2016.]

Love is endlessly alive, always flowing toward the lower place, and thus life-giving for all, exactly like water. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," December 23, 2016.

"Love is endlessly alive, always flowing toward the lower place exactly like water." Like water, love seeks its own level...filling every nook, cranny and crack until there is nothing but love.

I am blessed with a blinding flash reminding me that God is love, and I understand that God is always flowing toward the lower place because there is no higher place. God seeks its own level, is everywhere, is in everything...filling every nook, cranny and crack until there is nothing but God.

God is invisible to the naked eye, unhearable by the natural ear, unreachable by the reasoning mind...is known only through the heart.

I am guessing that's why faith was born...to help us trust our heart.

Thank you.

THE DAWN BREAKS...WE ARE FREE

A simple truth that resolves resistance: 'whether we know it or not.'    

I realize again that we are in the 4th dimension whether we know it or not. Living this truth alters, i.e., makes peace with, our reasoning mind's ever seeking to control.

"Makes peace with," of course, is when we give up, give over, give in...with gratitude and grace..

Apparently, it is the natural order of things that reasoning mind is geared to stay in control of our life, while spiritual consciousness lives that control.  

Ah, the dawn breaks: In the process of being lifted to a higher plane, personal control of our spiritual life is nonexistent...we simply live by spiritual principles and be happy, joyous and free. God's will, God's way.

Thank you.

A HIGHER TRUTH IS ALREADY OURS

Emotions are, first of all, a gift from God so that we can touch upon reality by a way other than our brain. — "Richard Rohr Daily Meditation," August 23, 2025

This points the way to a new goal...to touch upon reality by a way other than by our brain.

I love that this comes at my 54th anniversary time. But...and it is a big but...what does it mean to me personally? As in, how do I go about touching upon reality other than by my brain?

We let it. of course, and therein lies our rest-of-life aim and goal, i.e., to let go and let God.

This realization already occurred within me...I have been seeing deeper, understanding more clearly, knowing a higher truth than my reasoning mind deals with. This is proof that it came not by my thinking but by my awareness...the pearl beyond price.

I look forward to continuing to live it.

Thank you.