Still more spiritual growth is all about detaching, letting go, giving over. The reasoning mind is all about No.
The trouble with the reasoning mind, which houses the ego, is that it truly has only our personal self-interest at heart. It means no ill to us but its first weapon of choice is ill-will. Ill-will toward whomever it feels threatened by. Somebody is going to pay, is its watchword, and it is not going to be us.
I was reminded of this recently when I was rereading a book that was read at my first retreat. The book is all about pledging our allegiance to God. It sets out the need to renounce family, forsake family, look no more to family for anything. It lists many other things we must renounce, but "family" got the most resistance.
Our reasoning mind totally resisted the concept of giving our family over into the care of God. Of trusting that the unseen God could and would care for them as well as we in the here and now could or would. Or, more particularly, that the unseen God could or would care for us as well as our family does here in the seen.
We must divorce ourselves from all of our attachments and let the grace of spiritual reality give us up to God, to the care of God. This is our own personal test in spiritual growth: trusting that God, who is unseen, can and will care for us and ours as well as we can here in the seen...will, in fact, intervene in our lives in our behalf.
Our ultimate test, of course, is simply trusting God. For any and all reasons.
Thank You.
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