At one time I believed that our rues, regrets and remorses were the bane of our lives, to be dropped, walked away from, forgotten...and yet who has ever been able to simply drop one rue, walk away from one regret, forget one remorse?
I now believe that our rues, regrets and remorses are our angels. I believe this based on my experience with my anxieties which I used to plead with God to remove. When I became willing to change my mind, in other words, to listen, I accepted my anxieties as the golden goose that would keep me moving toward spiritual solutions...as nothing else could.
I read often that the old self must die in order for the new self to be born. The way there, it seems to me, is for the things of the old self to be transmuted...our rues, regrets, remorses, are not forgotten, but made golden, ever to be our touchstone of humility. The way of love and laughter.
Our spiritual abundance is the gold that has been transmuted from our rues, regrets, remorses...never again can we, need we, writhe in regret...gleefully can we sing "Thank You" for every old way of being.
By simply changing our minds...by divorcing ourselves from our own opinions...in exchange for still more spiritual growth, we have been made new.
Thank You.
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