Blinding flash of the obvious: It is...therefore, it is for my good.
"For my good" is the hook. Our reasoning mind can only love believing that everything is "for my good." The problem is the reasoning mind is set at my good being my money good, my popularity good, my influence good. God's good has nothing to do with pleasure, prestige, prosperity. And knowing better does naught toward our peace of mind if our knowing better is solely from the eyebrows up.
We must go deeper to higher consciousness.
We come again to that choice we're given of two ways of living our life, whether to live from the reasoning mind or from the spiritual. A part of our awakening is the realization that we cannot deny the reasoning mind, we do not quit using the reasoning mind (an impossibility, I'm guessing). No. We make a decision to give up reliance on our reasoning mind. We put spiritual consciousness first...we choose to go to God for God and that is all. Without resistance, our reasoning mind slips a cog allowing spirituality to move to our forefront.
Then through constant vigilance we keep spiritually centered, being ever aware of the danger of scrupulosity. To paraphrase the anonymous monk who wrote "The Cloud of Unknowing," we must ever beware of the overly scrupulous for their self-determined objective is their god.
We go to God for God, that is all. For it is God who allows: It is...therefore, it is for My good.
Thank you.
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