RISK FAILING...THAT'S HOW WISDOM IS GAINED

On wisdom’s path we take the risk of making mistakes. On this path we take the risk of being wrong. That’s how wisdom is gained. -- Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," December 31, 2025

My life's turnaround came when unconsciously I gave me permission to admit. without pride or guilt, whenever, not if ever, I was wrong. 

That was not an original thought, of course. It came from hard-earned life experience...specifically when I realized when wrong, promptly admit it was direct advice to me...God's will, God's way in fact.

I am halfway convinced that making mistakes is God's perfect will for us...clearly, making mistakes is not our self-determined objective. 

Our making mistakes could be God's teaching skill...face it, He knows us well! 

It has ever been true that I must try with a will, fail, turn to God, flounder, seek God, fail...admit complete defeat, accept God's will, God's way...live happily that day.

That is my life today...and in my (relative) freedom from fear of making a mistake, I live happy, joyous and free.  

Thank you. 

OUR CONTINUING GOAL...LOVE AND LAUGHTER, I

The following is a reprint, updated, of my blog of December 31, 2016:
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My mind is still; my ego has been set at rest. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By," December 31.

Humility, a healer of pain. -- Anonymous

You're taking yourself too seriously. -- my bathroom mirror

There is just one answer, no matter the question, and that is: Love and Laugh. -- Life experience

My hope for you and for me is that we let 2026 be gentle with others. 

Let others be free to be gentle with us or not to be gentle with us. It makes no never mind what others choose to do or to be, our hope and goal remain unchanged...i.e., for the peace of love and laughter. 

Only we each can choose to do that...with God's will, God's way ever guiding.

Thank you.

ON GIVING GOD A GRIN...PERFECT PEACE

This then is our walk: [To] sit with and be present to this light, shining into our own lives in the midst of the unresolved matters of our hearts. -- CAC faculty member James Finley, "Richard Rohr Daily Meditations," December 29, 2025

That is another indirectly direct answer to my ever-questioning mind. Quite simply...it is to trust. To trust that the God of my understanding is on the field for me, for my benefit.

That is my always, rarely spoken, prayer...to trust that which I believe I believe: That God can and will, sought or not, do for me that which I cannot do for myself...always for my benefit.

The great lesson that opened my heart, mind and soul to the truth of that is that answered prayers rarely come looking good...as in, looking like what we had in mind when we first realized the need for a specific prayer.

The reasoning mind's idea for a personally answered prayer is it brings peace, love, joy and looking good all in one package...with looking good holding the edge.

Here's my peace...I suspect my best thinking likely gives God a grin. Here's my happy...feeling God grinning on me. 

That is love pure and simple. Best part is it flows both ways.

Thank you.

OUR CONTINUING GOAL...LOVE AND LAUGHTER, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of December 31, 2016.]

My mind is still; my ego has been set at rest. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By," December 31.

Humility, a healer of pain. -- Anonymous

You're taking yourself too seriously. -- My bathroom mirror

There is just one answer, no matter the question, and that is: Love and laugh. -- Life experience

My hope for me and for you is that we let 2026 be gentle with others. Let others be free to be gentle with us or not to be gentle with us. It makes no never mind what others choose to do or to be, our hope and goal remains unchanged...i.e., for the peace of love and laughter. Ah, only we can choose that for our self.

Thank you.

CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY. . .I

[The following is a slightly reworked reprint of my post of December 25, 2016.]

God lives within us all. I wonder if only certified saints live that truth. I suspect not...I'm guessing it isn't only saints who can live that, but that saints and grownups alike live that truth.

The question is, do they realize it?

 
We read Mother Teresa's dairies and letters, and she seemed as unsure of her spirituality as just plain folks do. And Saint Augustine was the one who was alleged to have said that lust would be with him three days after his death.

 
They say it's not easy being green, but it's no easier being a grownup, according to me. None of us need wonder about the saints.

But isn't that the goal? To be a grownup. to know it and show it. The catch phrase in today's world is, But what does that look like? 

Grownups don't have to ask.

God lives within, but it is a hard lesson learning that we our own self must choose to loose him...loose him and let him flow.

Thank you.

WALK FREE...GOD HAS OUR BACK

It is happening again...or still. The spiritual reality that I am realizing is written about in the next page I then read...no matter where or what the page is from.

Blinding flash of the obvious: I have begun my turn around. 

It began with my feeling like a babe in a blanket, i.e., utterly un...unknowing, unaware, unworried. Ah, free...expecting naught but my next breath.

There it is: God's gift, our next breath. Thank You. Amen.

All that comes after our next breath is for our benefit, and our now job is to pass it on not by words, by our raised consciousness, Resist not...God consciousness is our mentor.

It is fact, I am beginning again...on the God consciousness path...always for the benefit of the other, assured that God has my back. 

It is also assured that the going will be slow when, not if, I am doing it right.

Thank you 

ALL MATTER AS INCARNATE

"As [Teilhard] writes in 'The Mass on the World': Through your own incarnation, my God, all matter is henceforth incarnate."  - "Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation," December 23, 2025

That sentence, that thought, has begun to open my mind, my Soul, to the realization that we, that everyone and everything, is One...IS one. 

That which I have read about, talked around, thought on for so long is coming into Being...with and within me.

Now, to let it. There. That's my new job description: Let It. Period. End of job description; and the beginning of my new thought process...which is not to let it (the thought) become an obsession. 

The God of my understanding has just been handed another brake hold for me. Thank You, Father.

Thank you.