W10 D3- Choosing The Better Part

A skeptic went out after a bitter cold night to dump his trash across the yard. On coming home he saw his widowpane was covered by snowflakes and all he could think of was,” God sent his visiting cards one after the other and I didn’t know it.” Whatever he knew of God so learnt at his grandma’s lap as a child came flooding in. The least I could say is he transcended out of his everyday existence, and across time by such lowly things as snowflakes. His spirit in other words connected with the Oneness of Things.
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We let our spirits at times to rise above our quarrels with our fellow men and accommodate one another. We create conditions for peace. This creative spirit in one way aligns us ever so little with God. God is a creative spirit and we enmesh our lives in the way we exercise our spirits for raising the quality of lives around. Our body casts it shadow in the way we put it to work: spirit as a shadow. This is our middle state. Thus our bodies are means for touching upon Spirit that draws all things to Itself. Oneness of Things.
So though we be put to inconvenience or suffer loss for being steadfast to our rights and beliefs we have also gained thereby. Wouldn’t that be something? In dollars and cents we lost but gained in extending our area of reach or defining our spiritual dimension a little more clear. Such exercises conscious or spontaneous make it easier for us like Mary of Bethany to choose the better part. ( Lk 10: 39-42) Martha her sister of course was pragmatic and attending to the needful things that keep a household running. Wasn’t she right in taking on the onerous chores? But for Mary the presence of Jesus being present was too good to be missed. Thereby she let herself soar while Martha was encumbered. (There will always be time for chores and setting the linen folded exactly and place mats arranged neatly on the table. But when we may fix our spirit, our better part so we may bask in its glorious sunshine long after guests are gone well, there is something to be said for Mary’s freedom. )
Tailpiece: If we cannot conceive spirit without the agency of our physical form we may also safely assume God having an anthropomorphic form. A personal God,- it defines our middle state.