I woke up this morning agitated about my upcoming dental surgery, so after breakfast I picked up a little blue book that has been in my possesion for decades. It is written in an old-fashioned style by someone that knew about gnostic Christianity.

For him, the Bible held all the clues needed for man in peril (and man is always in peril.)

He spoke of addressing people’s better angels rather than addressing their fragmented egos.

He spoke of turning within to receive our daily bread and then refusing to eat the bread of futility or despair.

I sat there and kept reading and realizing that the ego can never know God because it is busy knowing better!

So that is the situation, but what is the solution?

It cannot be put into words because it is not coming from the mind.

It involves taking the time to enter the closet of your private self and fall silent.

There is where the war fades away. There is where silence begins to rearrange your being.

There is a calling on God within to make all things right.

There may be a shaking up of the wrongness within before the rightness can appear and do its work.

We must not think that we are doers when we are only be-ers witnessing the working of the Holy Spirit.

*No doctrine was involved in the writing of this essay.

Vicki Woodyard