Good morning…
The Spirit’s synchronicity astounds me. Many, many of us related to yesterday’s post My Inner Critic. It seems I’m not the only one prone to critical comparison, sometimes judging myself as less, unworthy, unimportant. But look at the text I received after yesterday’s blog.
“Hey dear friend,” she wrote from another town. “I thought your posting today was as usual….perfect……look at my daily reading from Eileen Caddy today……the synchronicity is really so divine!”
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Eileen Caddy’s Daily Guidance for Thursday 3 December
You are part of the whole, and each soul has its part to play in the whole. So be not critical or intolerant of one another, but realise that no two of you are the same and that it takes many different parts to make up the perfect whole. Have you ever seen a clock taken to pieces? There are many different parts that make up that clock, and as you see them lying there before you, you wonder how they could ever make up a perfect timepiece. But when someone who knows something about clocks takes each piece and puts it in its rightful place, you find that not only does it go, but it tells the correct time. As long as each tiny piece remains in its rightful place, playing its part, everything goes smoothly. Now you know why I keep telling you to find your rightful place in the whole vast scheme of life, and when you have found it, to give of your very best.
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You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything (1 Corinthians 12:12-13, MSG).
With such strong spiritual synchronicity, we enter into a large and integrated life in which our sustaining Creator has the final say in everything. Our unique soul is designed as a key part of God’s whole.
Who in the world do you think you are to second-guess God? Do you for one moment suppose any of us knows enough to call God into question? Clay doesn’t talk back to the fingers that mold it, saying, “Why did you shape me like this?” Isn’t it obvious that a potter has a perfect right to shape one lump of clay into a vase for holding flowers and another into a pot for cooking beans? (Romans 9:20-21, MSG).
Another dear friend wrote: “Sue, you are a skin-on shepherd who helps light the way for all of us through the darkness – especially because you are trying to find your way too. You work it out with God and with us – showing us the ‘making of the sausage’ such that we might learn to do so ourselves.”
Maybe that’s it.
Maybe on March 23, 1963, our Three-in-One God thought: “Ah-ha! Today is the day We birth a sausage-maker!”
…Sue…
