Get the Big Stuff Right

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This morning on 10 Minutes of Morning Calm, I invite you to slow down and ask a simple, searching question: are we getting the big stuff right? We so easily “get lost in the minutiae,” tangled in diplomacy, anxiety, and the thousand small decisions that clamor for attention. Yet as Swedenborg teaches, “the general categories are arranged first so that the Lord can gradually fit the subcategories into them… If the general categories are not in order, the subcategories cannot be” (Secrets of Heaven 9216). In other words, when we anchor our lives in a few governing truths, the Lord builds the rest beneath them. Integrity. Kindness. Love that wins. Sometimes honesty feels short run, hurtful, yet in the long run it proves healing. So we take a breath. We rise above the weeds. What is the big picture? What point am I going to navigate by? In stillness we remember who leads us. From that holy center, clarity comes. And the lower picture sorts itself out in surprisingly beautiful ways.