Years ago when I was stuck in indecision, I called a friend for advice. He was very helpful, but the card I received from him a couple days later was the basis for my final decision. The front of the card was all shades of pale yellow into mustard into lavender into purple and at the edge of the lavender into purple was the figure of a bird in flight rising upward. Inside he had written, "Cling to nothing...fly!"
Today if I can't decide whether to stay at this job, in this home, in this relationship, with a justified hurt or peeve...the answer is the same, "Cling to nothing...fly!"
The secret, however, is that our feet need not move...it is our ego-victory thoughts that we must let loose...let them fly so the word of God, wrapped in peace, can enter. And the word of God wrapped in peace most often turns out to be the very thing we were resisting. It is our resistance that we've been clinging to.
We must listen not to resist but to hear in another way, to hear another view, to hear God's word. God's word a whole lot of the time comes from the one person we do not want to hear from...to hear anything from, as in, I've heard enough from her already, and when will he just shut up?! There...that's when God's word is falling from those lips.
This just in: The majority of the members of Congress are millionaires...voting against aid for the poor, food stamps, unemployment insurance. OK, God, I'm listening.
"And the word of God wrapped in peace most often turns out to be the very thing we were resisting. It is our resistance that we've been clinging to." I believe, help me my unbelief.
Thank you.
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