Blog 211 – 01.19.2016

I would like to revisit one of my recurring themes, that of Divinity on holiday in the guise of one of His children acting out one or several scenarios. In the movie, Dogma, a Michael Smith, romp, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play fallen angels that are scheming to get back into heaven. During their plot God turns up missing. It happens that She has taken one of Her frequent leave of absences to play skeeball. Who knew God was a a skeeball fan but then who isn’t? After all you win tickets that can be turned in for those priceless prizes i.e. whoopee cushions and the like.

Perhaps it is a bit of a stretch for most minds to think of the Divine doing the silly or the mundane things we do but it does give pause to the promise, “I am with you always.” Of all the things In the Bible that folks take literally and probably shouldn’t this is one that they probably should and don’t. I think it is true that in Him, God, The Universe (Her is an equally good pronoun), we live and move, and have our being. It is also true that the Divine lives, and moves, and has being in us.  The many verses that are interpreted to refer to the Church as the Body could as easily as be interpreted to mean literally that we are the body individually and collectively that God lives through. We are unique individuals and yet One in a sense that is thrilling and astounding.

A dear and beloved friend said to me yesterday, “I don’t want to be alone.” That is the exact same line the Holmes utters to a young Watson in the movie Young Sherlock Holmes when asked what he wants to be when he grows up. Aloneness is my friends an illusion. Just because your eyes cannot see the Invisible does not mean it is not more real that what our eyes show us. If family and friends seem to be far away there is a Friend ever with you. I believe this so strongly that I know if I could be still and quiet enough that I could hear His/Her heart beating with mine and that still small voice saying, “Don’t worry, Baby, everything will work out right.”

And the reason I think so is to be found in another verse hidden in my heart. “God is in us to will and to do His good pleasure.” So relax and let LOVE have His perfect work.
Crazy as this may sound, listen for that sweet Amen in your own heart, that intuitive “That’s right.” That helps us know the truth from a good sales pitch.

This life is meant to be An Adventure In Paradise and can be if we let the Best live in us and through us with out resisting and fighting. Either way it will be the adventure of a life time.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White