From my post of yesterday: Then I was gifted with a blinding flash of the obvious speaking his words in my ear. Just as I was heading for my race-race, run-run downhill slope yet again, I was hit with the truth of that statement...the most spiritual thing you will ever do is slow down.
That exemplifies how God works, according to me. We hear the truth, we agree or disagree with that truth but its seed has been planted. It comes back to us on occasion to be examined yet again...or discarded yet again...but it keeps coming back. We finally come to agree...this is the truth. But what good is it if I can't do it? I slow down, and life goes on just as upside down and backwards as before, and the past I'm regretting stays the past I'm regretting, and OMG, here's another awful. And that's if we're doing it right.
That is the nature of learning the art of self-discipline...getting it wrong, going to God, getting it wrong, going to God.
To garble a quote from the Bible, we never know the hour or day the bridegroom will come. Which I take to mean, we never know when enlightenment will flicker on...and stay on. We never know when, but we do that...when it will happen becomes that it has happened.
The proof that we know is we find ourselves laughing as we tell about the very thing we had been crying over...and feel love in our heart for our very own self. Which love cannot be contained...we feel love for our world, for the world. We feel love because we are loved...in that moment, we are love. We are One'd.
Thank you.
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