Spiritual resource to share: calm trust
"The world is not falling apart" was my first instinctual response after reading about the shooting on Northern Illinois campus recently. This jolt of bizarre violence had the potential to string itself to other senseless acts of violence building momentum for the idea that chaos is the order of the day.
But there is something more powerful than that.
A calm forceful thought came through: "The world is not falling apart." I drew from historic examples of the turning of apartheid, the falling of the Berlin wall, the overthrow of Nazism to see the deep churning of thought brought on by the transformation of Truth and Love (words for God). I drew on my own experiences in seeing the immediacy of love and comfort rush in when there was a fear of death. I drew on the reliable and persistent flow of common sense and common humanity to flood in where chaos threatened. And I drew on the energy of prayer that affirms eternal life, healing, and the supremacy of good, God.
And I came to the conclusion, that no matter how random, stupid or senseless these acts of ignorance are, the roar of God's Truth will always overpower it.
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2 comments:
do you think that this is what Mrs. Eddy was referring to when she said, "The wakeful shepherd beholds the first faint morning beams, e'er cometh the full radiance of a risen day...."
Everytime we focus on the good that we know from our own experiences of God's power and presence...not in spite of the drama of violance, but instead of it...with as much certainty as we know that the dawn promises the full radiance of noon, so our timeless experiences of good give evidence of the all presence of God's goodness...even the faintest light is the evidence of a whole and complete sun...there is no lesser portion!!
Thank you for this reminder...you are so faithful...with Love, Kate
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