Lilies

The lilies of the field do not toil nor spin, yet they are wonderfully dressed and cared for. They do live their lives; they do not assume an unplantlike existence. When we are told that just as God takes care of the lilies, so He cares for us, and therefore do not give thought to what shall we eat and what shall we wear. It means that we eat and dress, but our thoughts - particularly our goals as we conceptualize them - should be of God, not the obsession of food and clothes. It means that when the time comes - and it will come - when the conceptual defenses in which we live are broken down... a time such as the present, when our stories were discovered to have been childrens' stories... if you have set your mind on food, and food is scarce, you will panic; if you have set your mind on buying clothes, and the malls have shut, you will panic. If you have allowed your mind to flow on the ocean of God, you will be able to float on your back while the rip tide takes the rest of mankind out for a long swim; and we shall be able to save ourselves. The time is coming. It always comes. When the time comes, we shall be the creators of our lives - not parents, not teachers, not mentors. We and God work together, when that time comes when we are alone and we are called upon to save ourselves. Then we create. It is our turn to continue the story. And if we have had the tiniest bit of faith and the tiniest bit of love, our story will be good. Otherwise, it will be a bad story. Our whole lives prepare us for the continuance of our story. Learn to let God move you along, and when the time comes - when we have reached the rock bottom of our life addictions - we shall speak with the voices of angels.