2 Samuel 24:16 · World English Bible
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
A destroying force sweeps toward the city, and then a single word halts it, enough, no further. The hand stops mid-reach.
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EGO & BEING
A destroying force sweeps toward the city, and then a single word halts it, enough, no further. The hand stops mid-reach. Something in the depth of things speaks, and the momentum that seemed unstoppable simply ends.
Inside a person the same halting happens. Pain builds, the mind runs its ruin toward some inner city, and it feels as though nothing could arrest it. Then a deeper presence speaks that quiet enough, and the whole storm stays where it stands. The angel comes to rest at a threshing floor, the place where grain is beaten to separate the good from the chaff. Suffering stopped in time becomes the very ground where what matters is sifted from what does not.
Ego v. Being lens
What runaway thought needs me to say enough today, before it gets to the city?
All that we are arises with our thoughts. The ruin a person dreads is usually built out of the mind's own material.
Take away the judgment and the harm goes with it. Most of the ruin you see coming was built by the opinion you added.
Return to stillness and the turmoil settles. Things rush and spin, and the one who comes back to quiet is not carried off with them.
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Ego v. Being