TO CONQUER SELF, SURRENDER

The way of conquest over the material, the temporal, which all should know, is learned by the conquest of the physical, the self-life, in each of you. -- "God Calling," October 25

There. That is the main message of spiritual growth itself: Conquer self.

My concept is that in conquering self, all good within is unblocked...and will flow out from our center (where God lives) to others, returning to us with twelve bushels full left over.

Conquering self to me starts with not being as nasty as I want to be, not responding in kind to less-than-wonderful remarks, acts or attitudes, and then moves up to being...truly feeling...care and concern for the other. The other being the original slinger of the less-than-wonderful.

Amazingly, I have been able to do that today...with an extremely few others. I just give me points big time that I've gotten over myself with two or three. And that's all it is...getting over our own self. No matter what mud is slung, if we don't take it personally, it is not ours, it cannot touch us.

This I know from my own experience, so I can guarantee it...so why are there only "an extremely few" I've succeeded with? Because getting over one's own self is not a job for self...and our ego does not cede its control period.

We must go to God. Ah, there's the hook. It is really, really hard to remember that we go to God for God and that is all when we see our problem, we know the solution, and we cannot do it. So we go to God and ask him to help us, to do something about it, to even help us accept it as unfixable, to do this, that, etc., etc., etc.

Until we can go to God for God and that is all, we're being our ego's spokesperson...going to God to ask for that which cannot touch our ego...our will. We were gifted with free will at birth, our journey is ever to give that free will back. As long as we're asking for our will's solution, we're playing our ego's game...there is no God in that.

To conquer self, surrender self. And that is all.

Thank you.