Enemy Within

One Year Bible for October 12th-"If my people would listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways, how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes (Psalm 81:13-14)."

We usually think of "foes" or "enemies" as external. In my limited experience of life, I have discovered that more often than not "they" are "internal." All of us have--from families of origin, or childhood trauma, or teenage displacement, isolation and rejection, or loss of loved ones, or of love, or treasures, or livelihood, that which creates and feeds the enemies within. Yet God is also in our "temple," offering us ancient spiritual impulses, sounds, thoughts, words, that will free us to live joyful, love-filled, satisfying lives.