LIVING THE TURNED-OVER LIFE

Learning the daily need to leave my free will to the care of God starts with my accepting me in the moment: I see my self-pitying victim-thinker…confusing pity for love, living in my world of hurt feelings, or, the self-protective victim-thinker…living in my attack mind’s world of anger, of mental lash-back at disagreements, minor or major, when I feel that I’ve been attacked.

It’s all self-centered fear, of course (but, then, what other kind is there?)…an unconscious sense of here’s me, all alone and unprotected, and it’s up to me to right it…sometimes seeking pity, sometimes seeking revenge…both times, being the God of my own understanding.

If I’m really serious about living my turned-over free will, it starts with my accepting that I get to reinterpret this seemingly discordant situation in the understanding that God is the substance of all there is. Simply put, there is another way of looking at that which is appearing…find the gold in it, for that is where God is.

This way leads to forgiveness which, to the reasoning mind, is the good and bad news both together. I’m convinced that forgiveness is the mental roadblock to peace, to getting over our own selves. We find we must let go of feeling the need to “retaliate in kind,” which is the essence of forgiveness.

I cannot get my reinterpretation AND vengeance.  I get to choose…and that is how I know and others see if I am living the turned-over to God life I talk so much about.

Thank You.