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It was such an eloquently
negative way to describe the
human ability to cope with life
that I knew I had to write about
it. It was in a novel and only a
manner of speaking, yes, but
that's why I think it is
important to address it.
I'm sure you and I have felt
the same way the character in
Rosamunde Pilcher's wonderful
novel WINTER SOLSTICE did,
and I thought I would like to
provide us a handle, a catch
phrase, we could use in future.
We could put it this way:
I CAN'T DO A
MORTAL THING ABOUT IT, BUT I
CAN DO A SPIRITUAL THING: LET
GO, LET GOD, TRUST THE
GOD-PROCESS.
The more we practice depending
on the God-process, the mystical,
miraculous way Life works things
out for all of us when we stop
trying to run God's universe, the
better it will be - for all of
us. Agree?
You never would have thought
Jesus was the one who spoke those
words, would you? No, we don't
think of Jesus as mortal or as
mistaking Himself as mortal, but
He was/is human, and I am writing
this piece because I think
"mortal" is all too often used as
a synonym for "human." It's
not!
Though it is really exactly
the way the glorious concept of
Unity teaches us to think and
speak, it was when as a young
student, I heard the powerful
metaphysical lecturer/writer Dr.
Richard Lynch tell us to ascribe
everything to ourselves that
Jesus claimed for Himself (the
universal Christ) that the idea
really entered my bloodstream.
Yes, it is taking a long time to
work itself into my response to
life's circumstances. As I wrote
above, sometimes I feel there is
no mortal thing I can do about
it, whatever "it" is.
Among my many "favorite"
statements attributed to Jesus is
this from John 5:19:
"... the Son can do
nothing of himself, but what
he seeth the Father do: for
whatsoever things he doeth,
these also doeth the Son
likewise."
When Son is capitalized, there
is no possibility of identifying
the Son as mortal (which really
means "only human.) When Jesus
speaks this way, it is clear that
He is teaching us how to be
individual expressions of God
coping with life's circumstances.
Jesus is saying, when I see God
working the situation out, I have
faith it is going to be done, and
then I know I'll do my part,
whatever that is!
This is what I am getting at
every time I write about the
God-process. Realizing that the
Son (you and I in Truth) cannot
do anything alone. I am now
practicing what Jesus says when I
say I'm going to trust the
God-process: God working through
everything and everybody.
Recently I have found myself
even daring to use this strong
denial: I REFUSE TO WORRY, I'M
TRUSTING THE GOD-PROCESS. I
used to think it is dangerous to
use a word like worry in a
denial, but at this point I feel
beyond the superstition! In other
words, I don't think I am at this
time "whistling past the
graveyard."
Are you with me, and do you
think we may just be beginning to
get it?
Don
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