Spiritual Detachment 2

I think when we read of the Garden of Eden we see the end result of Spiritual Detachment. For in practicing detachment we are travellling back in time, overcoming sin and holding all things as a gift from God. We who have been excluded from the garden through sin find life often a bit crazy and mad, disorientated, lacking in peace. A bit like some insane movie in which things are fixed together in an insane jumble.

Again the soul that is not detached is bit like a householder who never cleans up or organises things. The furniture is in a jumbled pile, the place has never been decorated of cleaned, we have a feeling we are in a lunatic asylum. To unjumble it and clean things up all things must be accepted as pure gift from God and held as being on loan. Which is the true way things are. There is an old saying in Castille, 'Life is but a dream'/ Life is very,very short. I think its only as you get older you get a real sense of this. My mother and father used to read the , 'Irish News' every day and gazed with great interest at the death columns and every day seemed to spot someone who had died, exclaiming as they did so at seeing someone they knew who had passed on.

I suppose this may sound a little depressing, but this earth is not our true home. In the light of eternity, I suspect this life will seem like a drifting spot in the distance.

For those who do not pray everything is an insane mess, without point or meaning. You see this again and again in books and films and art. Insane things happening to insane people. A mad hotspodge were you never know whats going to happen next. The opposite of this, accepting all things as gift gives the greatest feelings of peace and calm, of all things having meaning. The house is no longer a great jumble but everything is ordered in God, FOR THE SOUL IS GOD'S HOUSE.

Psalm 100
A psalm. For giving thanks.
1 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.

3 Know that the LORD is God.
[size=18] It is he who made us, and we are his [a] ;
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.[/size]

4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.

5 For the LORD is good and his love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
We are all of us intensely selfish and proud people. Its only when God leads us to fight against this we even begin to realise this. Even the very best of our actions come tainted by regard for self and pride. Thats for instance is why Jesus warned us that when we do something good we should do it in secret so that our Father that sees all things done in secret may reward us . You will have noticed your self how hard it is, after having done something good to keep quite about it, even by a glance or a half comment we like to throw a little searchlight unto it. The reason for this is that few things we do have not a very good piece of self love in it.

There used to be a song years ago which my mother used to hate and grind her teeth at called. 'No charge'. Do you remember it? Here it is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PCxFNtvTs

The mother asked her child to do something and the child wants to charge her for it. The mother sings out a huge long list of the things shes done and says there's no charge.

What made my mother angry was that the mother was throwing all she did for the child back in the kid's teeth. My mother used to say that no one forced her to have ten children and since she decided to have them it was up to her to look after them!! :lol: But the opposite of this are the big charity events were superstars pat themselves on the back and tell each other how wonderful they are. They, as Jesus said have gotten their reward.

I am maybe not putting all this to well , I will come back to this....