Everyman's Journal 2011, #60 © 2011 Rev. David Seacord October 8 To get back into the habit of writing again, for the last few days, I've been posting a short 'insight thought' on Facebook. Here's today's, just to share…. __________________________________ If God 'allows it', can I? I have come to see that 'resistance IS futile', and therefore choose to 'practice acceptance: being with what is'. My ego doesn't not always like this of course, and I can still feel the hooks of old injustices and angers calling for me to give up my Peace and 'surrender to the Dark Side', but the course is clear: What is required to stay awake while I inhabit a body in this world is both deep compassion AND deep detachment. I find these two make an excellent team, especially when harnessed-up behind the wagon of selfless service. __________________________________ An additional Everyman's Journal commentary: The Reality is, of course, that God 'allows' everything. This is different than 'God creates everything', which is untrue, at least at the level of understanding that the ego-identified-mind operates at. The journey to true being contains unavoidable curriculum in being fully responsible for our own creation of the circumstances of our existence here. This is, after all, simply a school for consciousness growth, and nothing is really 'as it appears'. In other words, it's all happening 'to us' to help us See. What better way to master Seeing than to be required to fully pierce 'the Mystery'. That piercing, to my experience, is short-circuited and nullified whenever we lose our connection to our Peace, to Acceptance, to the Silence of our Being. And the fastest way I know to lose those connections is to resist what is. To paraphrase my favorite Zen teaching: To resist what is even a little sets Heaven and Earth infinitely apart. Therefore, I suggest the practices of non-judgement to everyone. Namaste, David