Dear Hearts,
I’ve been in Martha’s Vineyard this week with my family and friends. I was sooo excited to go and to let go of my “obligations” to God. Haha. Sometimes I make my lessons, our retreatsnand the Course in Miracle meetings into some kind of job. I pretend I am working for JC (Jess), and as I do with authority figures, relish the times I can vaca. Imagine that. God is Boss and I am a worker been fraught with tension, believing the career is too hard, the hours too long and the pay too minuscule. That makes even me laugh out loud. I am slow to get the joke, always the last to laugh, but when I get it…
Hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha! My belly gets jelly with joy.
Anyway, I have a pretty humongous suspicion the boss I am thinking might be God, is my ego. I imagine vacation will make me too busy for meditation and prayer and fulfill that wish with a dose of guilt to round out the projection that I am failing Jeshua’s Course. I know, I know….you see right through my neurosis of leisure , but let me tell you I was pretty squirmy lying on the shell adorned sands of State Beach thinking I should have brought along my text, or even just a spiritual book. Okay, it wasn’t too bad lying there, and fairly great surfing the sapphrine blue waves. But I digress! I discovered while sauntering, actually as I was tooling around Oak Bluffs on my Miyata Two Ten touring bike, that I truly, truly, truly…Love my Boss. Do you get how truly that is? That is a sincerity greater than the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, who was more sincere and feeling than most people I know who have hearts. O shucks, there I go judging again.
What I mean to say is, I discovered the Boss was all about the bike rides, even with my front wheel warped from falling off the car. The Boss was all about the sunfish in the pond who nipped everyone’s calves and made us cry out in surprise. The Boss was all over our 2 and ½ hour pickle ball matches and oogling as the kids jumped off the channel bridge. Boss was gleeful sitting on the porch until the bum got numb, listening to stories, playing charades and drinking Island beer. Most particularly She enjoyed the people and the dogs who happened to cross our path and covet our laps. What I got is that God loves summering too, even parts like when the jumbo brown beetle got stuck in a puddle pocket in the outside shower and drowned!
The truth is, I love My Boss more than anything in the world, even more than the little titanic ferry that escorted us across the ocean, even more than the super beauteous waves lapping on the shell adorned sand, even more than the 2 and ½ pound Lobster that I ate smothered in butter sauce while watching the sunset at Menemsha, even more…oh, oh, can I say it…than snuggling into bed with Christopher and Kelsey at midnight, although that was like snuggling with God Itself.
Plain and simple, I just love my Boss with an IMMENSE HEART of gratitude for every experience we share together and all the lessons of obligation unlearned in the very difficult work of leisure. Oh phooey, somebody’s got to do it. Might as well be me.
I return to you and the arduous task of this moment as God and I together create these silly, soulful messages. The Boss finds this job exceptionally fun. Me too. I love you!
See you Thursday at 7:30 for ACIM work out at my home.
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And please don’t forget to register for the International Conference…there is all this talk about only 40 tickets left. Please put me in the box as the presenter inspiring you to attend. That is the work of a happy heart. Here is the link ttp://bit.ly/boston_register_self
A preconference gathering is happening on Saturday, July 21 in Quincy, Ma., sponsored by Open Doors. $25 will get you food and sparkling presentations. I will be there. Love to meet you.
all love,
marybeth and The Boss