Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.: For everything, turn, turn, etc.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

For everything, turn, turn, etc.

I'm exhausted, and here's why. This morning at 3 in the a.m., I awoke and couldn't get back to sleep, so I finished off When Religion Becomes Evil, by Charles Kimball, then I tossed and turned for what seemed like a couple of hours, when ...

I realized I was coming out of sleep, being turned from my right side to my back ...

That phrasing is deliberate. I wasn't turning myself, as far as I could tell.

And my first microthought was not again!

Then in the next split-second, I thought: "God is turning me."

Then I thought: "This is easy. I usually shake the bed when I turn over my large self (ask Dr. ER). But I'm not turning myself. God is here and is turning me over."

Then I thought: "Why is this turning so easy?"

And I sensed this come from the Cosmos yet from a source as close as my own breath: "Because you're letting me turn you."

And although I'm whipped from lack of sleep, I've been thinking about this all day.

--ER

# by Erudite Redneck @ 3:46 PM. CLICK COMMENTS TO GIVE YOUR OPINION>

Comments:

Cool. That resonates with me.

# posted by

Trixie : 10:47 PM

I'm not saying this to be mean, but, sometimes you can't tell who is driving your bus. God, or Satan.

# posted by

Anonymous : 6:56 AM

God's got the wheel, Satan's got the gas pedal...LOL!

Not the case, but a heck of a visual.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:07 AM

That second anonymous was me, by the way...hit the wrong button.

# posted by

Anonymous : 7:08 AM

That's probably because you don't know one or the other, or either. Not to be mean ...

# posted by

Erudite Redneck : 7:08 AM

Teresa

# posted by

Teresa : 7:09 AM

Teresa: :-)

# posted by

Erudite Redneck : 7:10 AM

Here's the deal:

I'm driving. Jesus is the roadmap. God is the road. (Or something like that!)

Satan, such as Satan is, is strapped into a child's seat in back screaming his silly head off because he's not getting any attention.

# posted by

Erudite Redneck : 7:13 AM

Thanks, ER. I seem to be incompetent at running the radio buttons used to identify oneself today...as you know, it's been a long few days.

# posted by

Teresa : 7:14 AM

Which means he can be a distration at times. But not much else.

# posted by

Erudite Redneck : 7:16 AM

Good happy thoughts and ER prayers have been headin' up y'alls' way.

# posted by

Erudite Redneck : 7:17 AM

brain tumor