[W]hen you can direct your attention, your thinking will never be compulsive again. -- "Words to Live By," Eknath Easwaran, October 30.
That quote is such old news, and yet this morning it feels like a blinding flash of the obvious...brand new and WOW.
I read it and recognized that I pray daily for God to guide (not guard) my thoughts, and that I remind me daily of the many spiritual strictures about thoughts as forerunners of actions. Then, at any given moment, my thoughts go to Gertrude's sitting in judgment of me, and I promptly sit in judgment of her.
Again, it is a matter of promptly turning our thoughts toward God, any part of God's world, when we even glance in ugly's direction.
Mental picture: We are standing on the banks of a raging, flooding Mississippi River. It cannot touch us if we back up now, and keep backing. We never know when the water-soaked ground (resentment-laden mind) will give way, even a tish, and spill us into the raging water. Caught up in the torrents, we may never get free. Those torrents take us wherever they want to go...and a river does not flow upward.
The good news is: All roads lead to God. The uh-oh news is: It is entirely up to us how direct our path to It is.
Thank You.
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