We hear, "If you will upgrade your attitude, you will
upgrade your problem," and after awhile we learn that is exactly true.
However, between the hearing and the learning...long period
of bumbling and doubt. Mainly because we start out trying to upgrade our
attitude by calling what we are feeling, i.e., the "bad," something
acceptable or pretty, i.e., the "good." That is just exchanging
one judgment for another. We are still into self-determined objectives,
underlying which will always be self...which most often is just ego victory
through resistance.
We learn that we cannot upgrade our attitude by self-will
alone. We get to bring in the Peacemaker (and not a Colt 45). We begin building
our inner connection with a power great than ourselves. This is the cornerstone
of meditation...being led down into the silence...turning our reasoning mind
over (within) to anything other than self.
We turn our attention away from the bad and/or the good, and
we focus on...the wings of a dove, a dogwood tree, mine is always the
lily of the valley. Then we sit and let...that is all. A blinding flash of the
obvious will come, a click-click will be felt.
And our attitude is upgraded...not through will, through
presence. God is present...heed It.
Thank you.
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