So when does my hidden, obscure, no thing God act? My God acts in and when I recognize my own weakness, defects, shortcomings, mess ups, in my ordinary and everyday life. Character defects, bad habits if you will, don’t show up occasionally. They are habits that I cannot change on my own broken will-power. In stillness and silence, I wait. Pay no attention to my agenda or thoughts. Let go of control. Just be. In time, this practice will reveal some hidden mess in me, or some mess I thought was minor, but found out was a major component of how I meet the world or ordinary, daily life. If prayer goes deep, the roots of the mess become dislodged in God Power. How do I know? Because in the everyday, outside the meditation time, I act and think better, more connected to others and their pain or gifts as the case may be. Selfless love and compassion is quite a trip.
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It's good to know that the truth of the situation may be better than what I perceive in the immediate moment. So fortunate that the God Power will eventually resolve to a good conclusion what now seems to be such a tangled mess. "Less of me, more of God" should be my daily practice!
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