Many of us are stuck in the belief that we must "take care of ourselves," "stand up for ourselves." At some point, we must gut-bucket believe that a power greater than ourselves can and does have our back...can and will "take care of us," "stand up for us."
The hard part in truly believing that, I am convinced, is that we want to see it, see our winning, through our own eyes. No. We must let that perfect power, aka God, lift us up so that we look out through its eyes.
All our ego eyes can see is what our ego believes it needs, which is, in fact, simply a want. Our ego has neither an idea nor a care as to how its want may adversely affect others. God does. (And we should because that's where karma is born...what goes around, comes around or what we send out comes back to us...quadrupled.)
We learn by living spiritual principles that on arrival God's perfect gift to us quite often looks less than wonderful to our ego. As in the other person gets the prize, wins, looks good...or better than we feel like we look at any rate. And ego wails, "I coulda done better than this...I shoulda stood up for myself."
No. It is in the going to the other person, as honest, open and willing as we can muster, and simply saying, in effect, "You have an interesting point...thank you."
We do this, not for the other person, nor to simply shut down our ego...we do it for God, for the still more spiritual growth that we need as much as we need water. It is a lifetime practice which we know we are growing into when we can say to ourselves about ourselves and with gratitude in our hearts, "Thank you."
Thank you.
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