Morning Thoughts
Belief is the pedestal of trust
Belief is the foundation of faith
Belief is the dynamo of motive

At first faith = trust + belief + action = more faith
In time faith = trust + belief + love

All of my life I have sorted people into 2 groups, those who are against me and those who are with me. The disease concept for the spiritual malady has helped me to see that the people who are against me are perhaps spiritually sick too so I am able to forgive them. This also helps me to see that those who I think are with me are succeptible to the same malady and thus are capable of letting me down.

I must let go of my expectations for either group.

This explains a lot of things and diffuses some of my fear of the unexpected.

The last thing that happened this morning was a meeting in which my peers and I were read the riot act. We were issued an ultimatum to adhere to some intensive directives for performance or else. I got the impression that no matter what someone is going to get cut.

After our meeting everything changed in our workplace. It is like the bubble of enlightenment that we lived in has burst. We were told that if we needed to work through our lunch or stay after for a couple of hours that we should do that.

When the meeting let out I had to get out of the office. I thought that I needed to step out of the atmosphere of fear and worry. I burst out into the day made the sign of the cross and said a prayer. I asked God to remove my fears so that I may better be the person he needs me to be. I looked around me on the street at main and main in the heart of downtown and I seemed to see a person from every walk of life. And no matter how well off or down and out that they looked I saw people that needed a solution to the mystery of life. And I saw drunks and addicts. I walked to my meeting and I thought that I had nothing to fear, that God is my real employer and helping others is the real job that matters. I remembered that he has always taken care of me and my family and I remembered to believe that he always will.

I got to the meeting and we read the end of page 89 about prayer and meditation and the beginning of the chapter "Working With Others".

Thanks be to God.

As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions.