My Sponsor used to say, “When I wanna make God laugh, I just tell ‘em MY plans.

God’s Plan. The is One who has all power, that One is God...

Seeking/researching without an agenda is an intuitive art of discovering the Invisible. No one is more invisible/anonymous than God. God hides in the Atheist, the Agnostic, but hides even more succinctly in the religionists. I've seen God in prison, as there's no prison wall so thick that God can't get through it.

I've seen God in the eyes of an Atheist and have seen God living most vibrantly in the eyes of the Agnostic who is willing to question everything. Being teachable is being open to questioning everything.

I loved God beyond reason and still do, and in so doing have released a peace greater than all understanding. Lean not unto your own understanding. Don't make everything all about you, your loved ones, or your enemies. Human reasoning is laughable. Rule 62. Forgive everything until forgiveness becomes the laughable joke that it is. If I am unoffendable (I'm not surprised there is no word as "unoffendable" in the English lexicon), there's nothing to forgive.

Yet, cast not the pearls before swine; be as wise as a serpent. Forgive everything.

If there is nothing to forgive, who is your enemy? The enemy disappears into the illusion that ego gave it to hide in. EGO seems more real than God, but with ego, there is no truth in it at all. Ego is a liar, and can only dance in duality and the addiction to knowledge (eating from the tree of the ego of duality or the ego (knowledge) of the duality (of good and evil). Forever learning, but knowing nothing.

Only in the human mind can ego subsist itself. Humans are the only ones that can talk about something that doesn't exist. Maybe that's why Existentialism resonates in my life like the echoes of God crying from the wilderness. Truth without paradox is dead.

Truth, like God and Love, is One. God, Love, and Truth have no opposites, for they are not of duality. Sure, sometimes I hear and don't object to 'My truth" and "your truth", but it's kinda chicken shit. It's childish to do my truth/your truth game. It's childlike to met in the realm beyond good and evil, like the field that Rumi mentioned.

I have experienced many miracles in my life, have witnessed the Hand of God, and heard the Voice of Christ; from these spiritual experiences have come spiritual awareness. Sometimes I describe Sponsorship as the practice of making the Comfortable uncomfortable, and the Uncomfortable comfortable until the Sponsee is (equally) at peace with everything. It makes the burden light, the yolk easy.

When I chose to not work on the Sabbath in prison, I kept getting thrown in The Hole. It was a number of lovely mini-vacations because at the time 'The Hole' was the only place in prison that had adequate heating, (thanks to the federal courts).

Eventually, the problem of my not working when they told me to work on the basis of religion was starting to annoy the administration, until one fine day the Associate Warden called me and my Cellie into his office and asked/demanded to know why we were not working on Sundays. I said, "Because God said not to" (in the Bible). The Ass War slammed his tightly clenched fist on his desk and yelled, "In this prison, I'M GOD!" I simply said, "No, you're not."

Magically, I was removed from any job that required Sunday work. I was not at war with the prison. It was genuinely my belief. It was not my ego, but my willingness to obey what I understood as a commandment.

Oh, by the way, about a year or so later, God died of a heart attack.

Look, I ain't pretending to be all that. I fall short every day in many ways, but I do my best to echo God's Love back to God in the form of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, and trust that if God thinks I have a defect of character that requires removal, I'll get some help. In the meanwhile, I suspect that shortcomings might be God's way of reminding us who God is and who 'ain't' God.

Sought through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, seeking ONLY for knowledge of God's will, and the power to carry it out. Thy will be done...even when I am clueless about how to make it happen.

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