Too often, after a difference of opinion with a loved one
(i.e., an argument), we think the air is cleared, and we want to give a little
giftee to our loved one...flowers, a new high-tech tool, whatever. The problem
being is that the air may be cleared, but our thoughts are not.
It is those I-really-am-right thoughts that we are
holding in ready reserve that we get to gift...to God. And we gift them by accepting them...another paradox!
The minute we start fighting them, they are Velcroed
within...in our heart and on our brain. Our ego has won, and those thoughts
will rise up in righteous indignation again. No more need be said there.
With our realization unto acceptance that our thoughts are
our real problem, the task of changing our mind becomes considerably easier. We
want to change our thoughts? We hug them, we kiss them, and we let them go. We
have no good use for them, so we consciously ask God to take them...or he can hold
them in ready reserve, and if he ever feels we need them, he knows what to do.
There. That's the real gift we are called to give.
But a bouquet of flowers, a hi-tech tool? Probably not an altogether bad idea.
Thank you.
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