Our attack mind is born in resistance. It then balloons into mentally attacking anyone (including our self) who offers an alternative suggestion to our anger, our hurt, our self-centered misery.
That same attack mind cannot be tamed by the reasoning mind, i.e., "knowing better." It is tamed by giving in, giving over...agreeing with our adversary quickly in other words. We don't have to like it for our own, but we do need to understand it as right for our adversary. Our new words to live by: Be the first to give in.
Once again, as always and ever, the answer is acceptance...also known as surrender. Surrender to another person's niggling opinions or to our own obsessions, it makes no never-mind. Surrender is the first step toward peace...giving it and getting it.
Being conquered by our own devil [that means losing to it], we collapse, utterly beaten, and cry because our way is no more, unaware that this is surrender turning the corner toward acceptance. Our attack mind has failed us. Our accepting mind hasn't gifted us with knowing what to do, just what not to do. We cry because we do not yet know that the blessing is in not having a clue what to do about it.
That blessing is the exact moment that God is released from within to lead us to our better place.
Not knowing is the gift, the pearl beyond price. Our reasoning mind is forced to concede, it has met the enemy and it is us (and I still miss Pogo).
Thank you.
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