"Precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little." Isaiah 28:10
"Precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little." Isaiah 28:10
Last weekend while I was practicing hard at the rink, I felt my stomach growing increasingly painful. It wasn't a big deal, just one of those things one usually puts up with for a while. But it was getting in the way of my moving freely and comfortably on the ice, so it was annoying. And it suddenly occurred to me that if it was getting in my way then it was wrong, and that I didn't have to put up with being uncomfortable. So I guess you could say I opened up my thought to dismissing this erroneous suggestion instead of just weathering it.
This was all happening as I was skating. So I sort of "looked up" in thought, and the question came to me, "Well, who is governing me, then?" And the answer that immediately followed was, "Why, God!" I felt so quietly happy--I was mentally smiling. I didn't think consciously about God as Love, but I had a sense of God being all good and loving. I wasn't focused on my body, but rather I was lifted up to just exchanging a wrong thought for a true thought. It felt so natural and simple. And yet I had a very specific sense that God was governing me included, very literally, God governing every function of my body. I was just lifted up by this insight and kept on skating. A few minutes later I realized I had forgotten all about the pain and that it had completely vanished.