Enough!

Psalm 18
19 (18) They came against me on my day of disaster,
but Adonai was my support.
20 (19) He brought me out to an open place;
he rescued me, because he took pleasure in me.

Deut. 3: 18-28
26 But Adonai was angry with me on account of you, and he didn’t listen to me. Adonai said to me, ‘Enough from you! Don’t say another word to me about this matter!

Romans 9: 19-33
20 Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”

Matthew 24: 1-14
4 Yeshua replied: “Watch out! Don’t let anyone fool you!

“Out to an open place.” I said exactly that. I found myself in that “open place” and that is just how I described it to my friends afterward. I came out of the tight place, the suffocating place, the place of constriction and compression. I was relieved. There are all these familiar words whose meaning has been smothered: ‘saved’; ‘delivered’; ‘relieved’; ‘rescued’.  In that open place, I expanded. There was no more smothering, and all those weary words lined up in front of me as if I was the one to judge them equitably and bring them with me into that open place.

“Enough from you!” Oooh, this one is tricky! “Angry with me on account of you.” That is exactly what it was! How odd. The God-space was bent out of shape, because of someone else’s actions; it was totally “on account of them”! The cure was in hearing God say, “Enough from you! Don’t say another word about this matter!” Everything and anything I said or could have said would have only made it worse. I had to shut up and trust.

And then there’s this: I have a new name, a Dharma name— a Wisdom name:  Sokunin— ‘As-it-is-person’.  So, the word “enough” gains added meaning from that perspective.

The open place is also the ‘enough’ place; the “as-it-is” place.

“Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?” —Nope, not asking any of those questions! Not saying another word about this matter, thanks!

“Watch out, don’t let anyone fool you!” Once fooled, twice wary. But what am I watching out for? I think I’m looking out over the Promised Land watching out for anybody who tries to get me to believe that it’s a place where I might actually live. Not buying it!

 I made promises too. It’s hard to fool me now, because I’m watching. I’m not leaving this stinking world behind, how could I? My promises are here. God and I agree:

I get to stay here, and that’s enough.