On Mercy

The teacher teaches what he/she needs to learn. Have we not heard this expressed over and over. On mercy, I am teaching as I learn about right action. As I am filled with mercy, I am filled with the feeling of right action. Not that I am responsible for "doing it", whatever I am doubting about my safety in that moment. Rather in the presence of a threat I am not overwhelmed with the lack of safety but rather I am feeling that performing the right action is more important. I am making myself available to the Presence of God in that moment, that what is being done, is being done through me. In other words, the right action is there already, all I can do is serve it. I am filled with mercy. For those who shudder at the word God, myself as well, that is another lesson I am teaching myself.