On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know that less and less do you need to force things, until you finally arrive at non-action.

On this day of your life I believe God wants you to know that less and less do you need to force things, until you finally arrive at non-action.

This is the message of the Tao Te Ching, and it is true. Werner Erhard has taught, “Life will resolve
itself in the process of Life Itself.” Byron Katie says that liberation is “Loving What Is.”
And Stephen Mitchell calls non-action “the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can’t tell the dancer from the dance.
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I will go a step further in saying:

It happens in God time, not ours.

The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

–Reinhold Niebuhr

In loving memory of
Fr Bertram Griffin — 1932-2000
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Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.

Proverbs 3, 5-6