Day 148i: Thanking the Divine for Heaven’s Shrouds … (September 24, 2019)
It was excessively hot on this particular day (or maybe I was simply excessively susceptible on that day to the same), and I found myself regularly (and often quite loudly) thanking each & every shading cloud that passed overhead – all while simultaneously vowing to walk onward for Love & Truth & Justice nonetheless, whether those blessed mists continued to offer me shelter or not …
“It all starts with one often very small thing, and when I find that ‘one thing’ – that one thing I can always be thankful for, others immediately rush to my mind. And then in but a few moments I am so inundated by all that I have to be thankful for – including, and even especially, all my trials and terrors – that any sense that my life is in any way impoverished itself becomes pauperized. In truth, there is an invincible fortress that greed and gluttony and all the other self-centered entities relentlessly assail with great force. And yet this same unassailable fortress is such that said torrent of darkness & discord may advance against it in a manner both vile and formidable, and yet the mad rage of that same maelstrom will ever fall helplessly into an exhausted calm before it ever touches the citadel’s inner walls. And intriguingly enough, it is only the seemingly softest of substances – that being Love, the verb – that can forms massive fortress such as this … And so it is that choose to be grateful to my enemies – all those who have denigrated and ridiculed and even betrayed me. For while they thought they were stabbing me in the back, they were in fact empowering my subsequently grace-full forgiveness. Indeed, in seemingly abandoning me to my solitude, they were actually freeing me to go and serve powerfully elsewhere … Gratitude is never a noun; it’s always secretly a verb. It is not a place we accept defeat, settle in for broken dreams or call it ‘the best life will get.’ No, real Gratitude is rising up out of laziness, self pity, denial and insecurity, in order to walk through the door of Love that Life has been holding open for you this entire time.” ~ inspired by Craig Lounsbrough & Shannon Alder
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