LIVING BY A HIGHER STANDARD

We often hear that in the spiritual world, all worthiness is given, that our only job is to fully and freely receive.

Correction...we don't often hear that. We need to often hear that. Because it takes some serious clearing of the reasoning mind to even hear that the first time. 

The reason it is so hard to hear in the first place is the ego must cede power...which requires our willingness, another toughie because the ego ceding power is just a lot of words for surrender, a fairly uninviting prospect. 

Few of us, faced initially with a serious problem, accept that our best answer is surrender. Even when we have admitted defeat, surrendered and found the gold in that, life continues to give us opportunities to grow through surrender, and we fight again. 

The reasoning mind is such that it links with the ego and cannot...no, will not...accept that it is powerless...that this, too, can be healed, set right, through giving over. Simply giving over to that power that we know, trust, and want to know and trust more and better, yet resist every step of the way.

It is the human condition to resist surrender, but "the human condition is such that we need to live by a higher standard than we'd  naturally choose." That, really, is the lesson we need to learn...that in the end surrender is a higher standard than we'd naturally choose.

Thank You.