LISTEN...THEN OBEY

In order that you may receive God's grace, because even though God is present with you, you cannot receive God's grace unless love, joy, and respect fill your mind and your Soul. -- Joel Goldsmith, "The Heart of Mysticism" at p. 1044

Here's the quiet word according to me...just because we have another in our life with whom we live, treat courteously, never bad-mouth to others, respect even does not mean we love him as our Soul needs to love.

We can know this by our attack thoughts that we harbor toward her. We may never breathe a less than wonderful word against him, all the while the ego-centered mind can be sitting in heavy judgment of her.

The mistake we make is trying to keep that from showing...all our efforts go into keeping our ugly hidden. I hasten to add it is never a bad idea to keep our ugly hidden as opposed to parading it...but that is neither our Soul's goal nor Its good.

Our Soul's goal is to keep in constant contact with our God-center which knows all we do and brings back to us that which we give out...and then some. Remember the word is: You cannot receive God's grace unless love, joy, and respect fill your mind and your Soul.

Just keeping our harsh thoughts from escaping does not translate into showing love, joy and respect. And we are the only ones being fooled by our attempts. We for sure are not fooling God within, nor are we fooling God without, i.e., those who walk with us. All that leads to is our feeling unfairly put-upon because to our ego-mind, our efforts are so noble. We're trudging down that wrong path again.

The right path is learning to listen. We do not need to talk to God as much as we need to listen for God...for God to speak to us through whatever manner or means God chooses to speak. And then to obey.

Thank you.