LIFE AND THE LAW - HOW WILL YOU PLAY?

So how are you going to play today?

To quote Mary Manin Morrissey;

Scripture says, "Behold, I place before you a day. Create with it what you will." The wonderful truth is that we co-create our lives by deciding how we will experience the circumstances of our lives. Today, choose to experience the joy of a life fully lived.

Live that life in the full consciousness of who and what you are…… don’t fall into the idea that you are small, or imperfect, or inadequate, or poor. How could you be?

Your most glorious life is lived by holding your mind steadily, continually, in the thought of God as your Innermost Reality, the Thing Itself, as Ernest Holmes called It, that which forms your very spark of life. Without it, you would be less than nothing…. But existence without it would simply not be possible. You have your life completely in God… and the life in you is God. In the words attributed to Jesus, “The Father and I are One.”

But, you say, the world keeps grabbing at my attention. I can’t spend my life being blissed out in the consciousness of God all the time! How would I get my work done! I’d be weird! I’d be some kind of ascetic monk, or a Gandhi, or……

Yeah……. So what?

You would be whatever God intended you to be. That’s already built into your makeup. God already had a Gandhi… one was enough. God is in the world, as you, because God needs a YOU! Whatever that is. All you need to do is…. notice how easy it is to say that…..All you need to do is…. Be yourself. But not a shrinking, cowering, shriveling, sniveling, groveling, simpering you. Who needs that? Your mission, should you accept it, is simply to be all that you can be – as you.

The world has seen some really great curmudgeons…. they are kind of neat in the way they can grump their way through life. Some people love them, and look forward to their good-natured crabbiness. You could be a great curmudgeon.

The world needs a good loudmouth. Sure we’ve got Bill O'Reilly, hist disciple Stephen Colbert, and Rush Limberger or whatever kind to cheese he thinks he is, but we could use one more – a different one. You could make a career as a loudmouth. I’ll time-share with you!

What we don’t need is a whole world full of identical, bland, goody two-shoes who are so busy being pious that they can’t stop to help, or won’t complain when they see something wrong going on. Oh we can take a few, but then the positions are filled.

We need skills. The world needs healers, educators, counselors, and leaders. The world needs not your wisdom, but God’s wisdom allowed to flow through you, into a world that can’t get too much of it. Hamid Karzai needs wisdom, in Afghanistan. All our leaders need a lot of wisdom.