Don't we often think, when we're trying something new and it's going utterly smoothly...no glitches, no doubts, just gliding right along, that that is our proof that this new thing we're trying is God's will? Has to be...it's going oh so smoothly.
And yet, when we're living in a world of selfish desires, our self-determined-objectives world, that "oh so smoothly," can become "oh no" in a heartbeat.
And we will live in that world until we make a decision to learn to live in the grace of gratitude. This is the world of "welcome," smoothly or not so smoothly, "welcome."
Learning to live gratefully as we breathe is a daily discipline. We are learning to discipline our own minds...to detach from resistance in order to become a channel for welcome.
Our daily fears, peeves, snubs, slights...sent and received...are as dust motes to grace. The hard lesson learning is that grace is not available on demand...we must make ourselves available through our changed minds and actions.
Then wait. In the waiting we go forward, obeying the laws of God and man...which basically eliminates the majority of our fears, peeves, snubs and slights.
Interestingly, if we just don't be as nasty as we want to be, grace will smile upon us.
Thank you.
And yet, when we're living in a world of selfish desires, our self-determined-objectives world, that "oh so smoothly," can become "oh no" in a heartbeat.
And we will live in that world until we make a decision to learn to live in the grace of gratitude. This is the world of "welcome," smoothly or not so smoothly, "welcome."
Learning to live gratefully as we breathe is a daily discipline. We are learning to discipline our own minds...to detach from resistance in order to become a channel for welcome.
Our daily fears, peeves, snubs, slights...sent and received...are as dust motes to grace. The hard lesson learning is that grace is not available on demand...we must make ourselves available through our changed minds and actions.
Then wait. In the waiting we go forward, obeying the laws of God and man...which basically eliminates the majority of our fears, peeves, snubs and slights.
Interestingly, if we just don't be as nasty as we want to be, grace will smile upon us.
Thank you.
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