I read Deepak Chopra’s “Jesus” a few years back. It is
subtitled “A Story of Enlightenment” and it is a fictionalized version of
Jesus’s unrecorded years. His buddy is Judas, and the punchline is Judas,
through his slights, snubs and betrayals of Jesus, was the key to Jesus’s
enlightenment.
That is so helpful to me in learning not to take every
slight and snub, each one feeling like a betrayal, personally.
I have a friend who has a quick-trigger temper, and she has
gone off on me three or four times…which is two or three times more than
anybody else who has stayed in my life. I have never known why I haven’t
mouthed right back, blowing off the friendship right then and there, but I
never have.
She’s building up to a tear, which is not comfortable
to deal with, so I do extra peace-be-still work when I see it
coming. I was doing my peacefulness time, and I had a blinding flash
of the obvious: She is my Judas…and therefore more important to me than
anybody.
It is through her that I am learning how not to take real-appearing
slights and snubs personally…they are not. They only become personal if and
when I personally attach myself to them…respond to them…resist them.
Thank You.
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