If a camel sticks its nose under your tent flap you must strike its nose immediately since a camel has no reverse. If it gets its head in, it is coming in all the way and quite frankly, camels stink. Such is also the case with our consciousness as negative thinking and morbid reflection (stinking thinking if you will) try to wheedle their way in. Though Living on the Spiritual Basis raises our consciousness, we must stay vigilant for those metaphorical camel noses, but no one catches every one. They will sneak in from time to time disguised as something else since morbid reflection and negative thinking wear a variety of masks. What truly matters is what we do when they reveal themselves. So when you discover a camel in your tent consider the following: “When trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate God’s omnipotence.” We do this by directed prayer and meditation, bathing the trouble in Divine Light and Presence, turning the camel out quickly and peacefully.
Shhhh…Just between you, me and the fence post I still don’t have the cheerfully part down pat yet, but by Living on the Spiritual Basis we do become well practiced in camel eviction procedures.
MOMENT TO MOMENT
ReplyDeleteThere are moments in everyone's life, Moments of fear and hate.
There will be moments in the future When we feel its impossible to wait.
Questions that have to be answered, Questions that have to be asked,
But there's a moment that’s with us all the time And its neither the future nor past.
it’s the moment we wait for forever it’s the moment that never arrives,
Because it’s the moment we live in this instant And its with us the rest of our lives.
The moment that’s happening right now Is a moment that no one can take,
So take it, and use it with passion, Its yours for your own sake.
Kev…..