Again this morning I realize that it's all well and good to have the blinding flashes of the obvious but they are only as good as my proof of them. Like, for instance, to be blinded by the realization that it is wrong to lie and then to continue to lie is a waste of a good realization, a denial of that BFO.
This is on my mind this morning because I found myself wrestling with my mental image of a friend who is doing it wrong according to me...and my ego.
My yesterday's BFO floated through my mind (everything and everybody that my life touches is made perfect through the Presence within), and I understood that I need to love Gertrude just as I am perceiving her to be. And here, to love is to not resist...to welcome that which I am resisting for that which I am resisting is my lesson about me. This is what I need to love in me, i.e., to accept, to not resist, to release out into the open.
There. That is how the BFO proves true...by releasing my ego-need to the Presence within which perfects everything and everybody my life and my thoughts touch. There is nobody to correct, set straight, turn around...only my own thinking that there is.
Doesn't it seem that our perturbance most often starts with a disrespected ego? If that be true, we can be grateful for it for there's our impetus to learn within acceptance...not just acceptance in our mind (which can change in a heartbeat), but acceptance in our heart, in our soul. Only then is our momentarily ego-freed mind open to love. Through simple non-resistance.
I wonder, is that all love is in the end? Simple non-resistance? And there's an oxymoron...simple non-resistance. But what an of-God goal toward which to trudge.
Thank you.
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