Don't Look Now

 

One wise little owl waiting.

Don't look now, but there is much we do not see, because our world and God's are so different. If He chooses to transcend our deficits, we can be uproarially happy. The soul that can forsake such joy is already a saint and belongs in His arms forever. 

The soul that can taste such happiness and turn right around and then embrace the cross in all its awefulness, is a saint already.

These facts explain the difficulties we have in life. Nothing works properly until we are one with Christ. We blame ourselves and despair of His mercy, until we arrive at the moment when we will lay down and let out our last breath forever.

Inherent in His distantness is the promise of mercy and the forgiveness of sin which all by themselves give us the wherewithall to surrender to death. I say surrender, because the thought of death is too formidable to think.

So much joy awaits the person who trusts in God and lives in spite of every pitfall we encounter. Other men plot taking away everything we have, and God at the same time is waiting to give us everything we need in abundance, and the fools taking still find a need to rationalize there inhumanity as if they don't find excuse enough, they will have failed. Thus, the nazis catalogues as many deaths with tatoos and the confiscation of the belonging of those they herded together to kill.

Don't waste your time looking for reasons; that is the greedy man's duty. He can't rest until he has accounted it all, forgetting that they too will render everything to God who will take our lives and remove them from all that was faulty about us and set us on our feet, completely new and functioning perfectly.

Every time the pain stabs into me again I am immobilized, and permit Him to inflict on me what others need to be saved and to be safe. Without gratitude to God there is no perspective large enough to allow anyone to see the truth hidden so accesbily to all of us, if only we could love enough.