It's God
Whatever Happens Next is Good, because its God.
Can you even imagine that whatever happens next is infinitely good? No matter whether you like or dislike this idea, is it still infinitely good? If in the next moment you just sit there, or if you get up and walk to the refrigerator, or if you get sick and throw up, or even if you have a heart attack, or your house burns down, could it be infinitely good? If you win the lottery or go bankrupt, it is infinitely good.
These statements sound insane because we think we know what is good and what is not. We think we know what should happen and what should not. We think we know what we want and what we don’t, and that we are right. We think we know what is in our own best interest, but do we? All that we know is good-versus-evil. We have already decided which is which, and our life agenda is ruled by those fearful, symbolic decisions. We don’t even know that they are fearful or symbolic. We don’t even know that this whole agenda is our life story. It has become a sacred religion to us. This story is god, the only god we know. We defend this story with our lives every day. Nothing is more important than this story. We sacrifice everything for it, all of our relationships, all of our time, all of our money, all of our attention.
We all have attention-deficit disorders. We think that it is unfair that the doctors are diagnosing 25% of the boys in our schools as ADD or ADHD. But we all have it. Our attention is not free to move beyond its own box. Our attention is riveted to our beliefs, married to our story. We too miss 90% of what is being taught in the school of life.
We are asleep to our freedom, unaware of the truth beyond our box of self-limiting thoughts. We have no idea who God is. We think that God is the creator of the world of good- versus-evil, and that he, like us, is against evil. The only difference is that god sometimes gets confused and doesn’t know the difference in good versus evil.
But just suppose that the next thing that happens is for your infinite good? Whether you like it or not? Suppose you dare to question your opinion about the next thing that happens today. All day long. Just try it one day. Is this happening for my good? How?
Is this little throbbing in my ear right now God speaking to me? I just had the notion to go shave. Is shaving a God- experience? Suppose I decide not to shave. Is that also a Love-experience? Who decides what is good or not? No one. We have already long ago decided that. To ask about the infinite good is always a now choice. It has never been made before. It is always brand new. You have never lived that moment, or that choice, before. You never step in the same river twice. Boredom and repetition are impossible when you choose to ask whether this very next event is for your good. Ask and then listen. You can’t know ahead of time.
You don’t have to wait ‘til your ship comes in. It’s in. It never left. You left. Your ship is the next thing that happens. If it looks like shaving, you don’t get it. If it looks like boredom, you missed it. If it looks like a headache, you are still asleep. Just wake up. It’s all paradise.
Can you even imagine that whatever happens next is infinitely good? No matter whether you like or dislike this idea, is it still infinitely good? If in the next moment you just sit there, or if you get up and walk to the refrigerator, or if you get sick and throw up, or even if you have a heart attack, or your house burns down, could it be infinitely good? If you win the lottery or go bankrupt, it is infinitely good.
These statements sound insane because we think we know what is good and what is not. We think we know what should happen and what should not. We think we know what we want and what we don’t, and that we are right. We think we know what is in our own best interest, but do we? All that we know is good-versus-evil. We have already decided which is which, and our life agenda is ruled by those fearful, symbolic decisions. We don’t even know that they are fearful or symbolic. We don’t even know that this whole agenda is our life story. It has become a sacred religion to us. This story is god, the only god we know. We defend this story with our lives every day. Nothing is more important than this story. We sacrifice everything for it, all of our relationships, all of our time, all of our money, all of our attention.
We all have attention-deficit disorders. We think that it is unfair that the doctors are diagnosing 25% of the boys in our schools as ADD or ADHD. But we all have it. Our attention is not free to move beyond its own box. Our attention is riveted to our beliefs, married to our story. We too miss 90% of what is being taught in the school of life.
We are asleep to our freedom, unaware of the truth beyond our box of self-limiting thoughts. We have no idea who God is. We think that God is the creator of the world of good- versus-evil, and that he, like us, is against evil. The only difference is that god sometimes gets confused and doesn’t know the difference in good versus evil.
But just suppose that the next thing that happens is for your infinite good? Whether you like it or not? Suppose you dare to question your opinion about the next thing that happens today. All day long. Just try it one day. Is this happening for my good? How?
Is this little throbbing in my ear right now God speaking to me? I just had the notion to go shave. Is shaving a God- experience? Suppose I decide not to shave. Is that also a Love-experience? Who decides what is good or not? No one. We have already long ago decided that. To ask about the infinite good is always a now choice. It has never been made before. It is always brand new. You have never lived that moment, or that choice, before. You never step in the same river twice. Boredom and repetition are impossible when you choose to ask whether this very next event is for your good. Ask and then listen. You can’t know ahead of time.
You don’t have to wait ‘til your ship comes in. It’s in. It never left. You left. Your ship is the next thing that happens. If it looks like shaving, you don’t get it. If it looks like boredom, you missed it. If it looks like a headache, you are still asleep. Just wake up. It’s all paradise.
posted by Dr. Joe at 7:12 AM
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