Our thoughts will go gamboling whenever they want to...just like an untrained lamb. That's why we keep ourselves in training...why we keep immediately turning our thoughts back to a simple "Thank You" which lets the air out of our resistance.
The most important action we can take with regard to unwelcome happenings is consciously accepting that we invited them. We may have thought when we did our inviting that we were doing a good and noble thing (with the victim's kicker, "And this is the thanks I get.") But this helps us detach from our deep desire to find the "real" person to blame...then waste our spiritual capital by taking that person's inventory.
I know from actual experience that I'm the one that starts my own unwelcome wagon rolling. Now, I get to find out what my motives were, what my thoughts were, what my actions were that gave me this unwelcome result. The good news is that it doesn't take very long to find once we accept that it was a decision based on self that started it rolling...it's good news because this is the very place where God can and will intervene in our life in our behalf. (My reasoning mind always thought God should intervene in my life in my behalf before any unwelcome things ever came into my life...which, let's face it, is simply wanting the life of a robot.)
The final part is the hardest...simply sitting and waiting on the Lord. How long we get to sit and wait is entirely dependent upon on how long it takes us to reach acceptance that this is not ours to fix, justify or cover up...not by an e-mail nor by word of mouth. Paradoxically, the sitting and waiting is the most active part of the whole process. And, if it's a paradox, it's got to be truth, according to me.
Thank You.
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