FAITH: PLACE your BETS

We all have uncertainty in our pandemic ridden world…in my personal world …where I am employed… things are changing with my several hospices.

Oddly they seem to all be changing at the same time. It is triggering me, what I was thinking was diversified risk spread over many sources of income was secure…right?

Life is AGAIN asking me to touch my story of fear…Mine is called “not enough” and it seems to be woven into my DNA… but it is not. 

“Faith is the assurance of things hoped for
And the conviction of things unseen.”

“The most important question anyone can ask… says Einstein (probably)
the answer will either contract your life in fear or open you up with options:
“Is the Universe a friendly place?’”  

Joyous wager…
An inherent believe in the goodness of the unseen is a bet worth placing. 
– No. 27

My DNA is well made & divinely inspired but...

My DNA is well made and divinely inspired... I have the whole of the Kingdom of God inside me…

God is in me not like a raisin is in a bun…God is in me like an ocean is in a wave.
                                    –Eric Butterworth

Not enough…This is a STORY…I am NOT this story.  But it is a  reoccurring story in my upbringing – in all human beings really…will I be ok?  Will I have enough?  Who do I trust to help me?

For me today the question is more about surrender.  I can’t reason with this story.  I don’t know how to fix this…so I will rely faith and bet on a friendly universe. Faith is not about understanding...it is about trust.

    “Trust the steady, simple thing over the complex, clever thing. Bet on the good in people.”             – Seth Godin

COVID-19 is the pressure cooker du Jour

I surrender all this noise in my head… to a friendly universe.

I have noticed that life is simply this practice. This is the spiritual journey to peace. I have seen over and over how in my life and those I support as a hospice and bereavement chaplain how life seems perfectly created – moment to moment – to trigger what is yet to be healed in us…in me

We are being changed…COVID-19 is the pressure cooker du Jour…it brings things up that need to be healed.  Racism, Sexism Ageism…

“The most important question anyone can ask is ‘Is the Universe a friendly place?’”  – Albert Einstein

Here is the remedy…it’s simple and steady and powerful.

The answer will either contract your life in fear or open you up with options.

Here is the remedy…it’s simple and steady and powerful.

Bet on Einstein’s  friendly Universe.  Gamble on that which will propel you forward. Make an investment. Have some faith.

Bet on the good in people…even if they don’t share their politics or religion or taste in clothes. 

Right now, some new opportunity is growing in the dark- in the good dirt of my life… your lives. Perhaps it has been waiting for us to notice and nurture it for a long time

ATTRIBUTIONS:

1)    Seth Godin – a metaphysical marketer and blogger
2)    The bible – Hebrews 11:1
3)    Einstein – probably said it…
4)    My book Rule no. 27 Joyous Wager.

    I Got Kin
Plant.     So that your own heart. Will grow
Love, so God will think, aHHHH, I got kin in that body! …
Sing.   Because this is a food. Our starving world Needs. Laugh    Because that is the purest Sound.    
       – by Hafiz – 13th century Sufi poet

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My thanks to Mary Oliver for her  line from THE SUMMER DAY. – my one wild and Precious Life.