Why do we worry about reducing our ego? If we're present to this life at all, our ego will get reduced! I suspect our worry is not about reducing our ego but about avoiding the pain induced in the involuntary reduction of our ego. And, who's kidding whom, it's that "involuntary" that's the painful part.
Recently I was thinking about all my friends, foes and relatives being my angels. I knew it to be true and in the knowing, I felt warm and wonderful.
I recalled that this morning, and the thought popped, but what about ISIS? I promptly got all up in my head, trying to figure it out. I decided that what I needed to do was ponder the core of ISIS, each individual that makes up ISIS, see each one as my angel, that what they do collectively is an abomination...and, there's where my head ran out of gas. The answer is to not resist what they do, the abomination, either?? I'm about to get my head chopped off, and I say, "Thank you???"
Then I remembered why I had to call it quits in trying to find my still more spiritual growth in the Holocaust...it's there, I'm not.
But I am moving up the line with letting my friend Gertrude be Gertrude...I haven't had to mentally set her straight for awhile now. We're talking major God-is-on-the-field here because she is still actively being Gertrude.
Ah, that must be what is meant by our spiritual growth begins right where we are. If I'm not where ISIS, Putin or my Aunt Hattie is, don't go there in my head.
I do have almost daily interaction with Gertrude. And that's how I'm moving forward...by not avoiding her, or cutting her out of my life, or being as nasty as I want to be...which takes going to God, going to God, going to God. It is never a bad idea to go to God instead of our reasoning mind.
And there it is...if we're not going to God, for sure we are going to our reasoning mind, a.k.a., going down that wrong road again.
Thank you.
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