LET GO, DETACH, ACCEPT, GIVE OVER

Becoming entirely willing to take directions in order to change our own selves begins with becoming willing to change our minds...about our own selves, about our defects of character.  (A defect of character is simply a trait we like in ourselves that puts others off...thus becoming the source of our woes).

There are many self-help books in the world...many of which are excellent guides to our changing for the better. That same "many books" seldom work, or seldom work for long. Simply because we're unwilling to use that which we find in them. It's like being given our first arithmetic book, reading that 2 + 2 = 4, and not agreeing with that. So we continue to use our idea that 2 + 2 = 3...and defending it. That is the way to remaining lost, confused, hurting, and blaming God, parents, family, friends, foes...the inevitable endless list.

I remember when I got my basic and best book of instructions. I was told, "All your thinking has been done for you." The happy news is that my primary job for the rest of my life has been learning to do what that book says to do; the less-than-happy news is it's all about ego-reduction in depth...giving over.

All I need do, whenever my ego is resisting whatever comes my way, is talk with a friend who points me to my book of instructions. I invariably find my how-to...my how to deal with this current problem which to my eyes is different than any problem I have ever had before, and I find my answer...let go, detach, accept, give over.

The answer changes to meet my changed circumstances, and the answer is always the same...let go of your desired result and seek to know and do God's will. That's it. It is not complicated. There is no profit, no growth, no peace in complicating it (which is simply trying to make the instructions fit what I want rather than what I need.)

Thank You.