When we find our lives in turmoil...everywhere we look relationships, events, things seemingly upside down and backward...we need remind ourselves that this is simply a sense of separation from God.
This is true when personal attacks come unbidden, unannounced, out-of-the-blue as it were. It is true when our mind is attacking another and us with a smile on our face. It is true when we have a life-threatening ailment. It is true when our refrigerator goes on the fritz and our computer flips us the bird. It is true.
The minute we entertain a sense of self we have excluded God, and we begin to look "for a way to perpetuate ourselves. The fear of extinction and the struggle for survival become the motivating force in human experience with aggression and fear the dominant and recurring theme." (Joel Goldsmith, "The Heart of Mysticism" at p. 930.)
All that is by way of reminding us (the bad news) that we are the source of all our woes, and (the good news) that God can and will intervene in our life on our behalf.
We turn from thoughts of how we must take care of ourselves, set somebody straight, shoot the fridge, go back to pen and paper... and turn instead to the fact that the Father knows our needs and has already fulfilled them in the best possible way for us personally.
Our only job is to ponder how we can align our will with his so that we may walk in the direction he has laid out for us...away from self toward Self.
Thank you.
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