The hardest part of spiritual growth is the discipline of self, the necessary daily discipline of taking the time to practice the Presence.
It is no easy task to come to believe, but to expect to live happily every after in that certain belief is folly. It takes time just to build that belief deeper. We must develop the practice of remembering that the Father and I are one, then of proving the Father and I are one, then of showing forth the Father and I are one.
When every thought is stayed on God, then what is added unto us is of God. "Therefore, I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. [Somewhere in the Bible.]" There. That's the gold of all the disciplining to remember, prove, show forth...but the paradox is, that if we've done it right, indeed if we are doing it right unto three days after we're dead, our only acceptable prayer is to know God aright.
We don't get to do all that disciplining so we can get money, a love or a Mercedes...we do all that disciplining to get the realization of God...which, hard as it is for the reasoning mind to grasp, is better than money, a love or a Mercedes.
Thank You.
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