Blinding flash of the obvious: Life's Golden Horseshoe is the u-turn we make from thanking God for every good thing that comes to us to thanking God for every single thing that comes to us.
According to me, that Golden Horseshoe has self on one end and God on the other...we start our life on self's side and make our turn toward God's side when we realize that "thank you" is the answer. That is all we ever need for honest, earnest, deep and uplifted conversation with God.
It's no great shakes to say "thank you" when we're gifted with a pot of wonderful, but when we see a pot of steaming stupid coming our way...can we think "thank you" then?
The first crack in our reasoning mind's resistance to such a concept is to just consider saying "thank you" for that is where still more spiritual growth has its roots...in the opening of a closed mind. It is in coming to acceptance within with that which we do not want to begin with that begins the process of overcoming our reasoning mind's resistance. That is where our personal peace is born.
A thank you for an unwanted anything goes against our common sense and confounds our ego, its need to win. We see the very possibility of any unwanted ugly coming toward us, we throw on our prayer shawl, hit our knees, and start running our mouth...calling it prayer.
There is no spirituality there, no spiritual growth, just our reasoning mind clamoring because to say thank you does not make reasoning mind sense...and again we learn: We must go beyond reason to love. Reason will not, cannot, get us there.
"Thank you" is our permission to our own selves to let go and let God. This is especially true when our reasoning mind is left wondering why? How can that be right? The key words there are, "our reasoning mind is left."
Thank you.
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