ON THE NEED TO LOVE AND BE LOVED

I read this morning that God creates us with a bottomless and endless need to be loved and to love.

That's a comfort and a hunh! both at the same time. Because in todays walking around world to have a bottomless and endless need to be loved and to love would be called excessively needy...or even stalking. We would be advised to get to a shrink already.

That's the difference between seeking head help and Soul growth. When someone comes to me for what-to-do suggestions, I never knock head help, but I usually check to be sure she is seeking still more spiritual growth with regard to the problem.

Still more spiritual growth without fail will turn us within in order to discover our decision based on self that later placed us in this position to be hurt. A person not ready to hear that can get a tish irate for he is still looking for an outside solution to an inside problem.

Seeking the answer to the satisfaction of our head invariably is all about finding the cause of the hurt...parent, boss, spouse, friend. Which cause may be true, but it won't get us free. It usually gets us one of two things (sometimes both)...justification or resentment...ensuring we remain our own victim.

Until we see, realize and accept that our reasoning mind's answers are the result of our invitation...our own personal, albeit unconscious, invitation...we will continue seeking mental solutions to our spiritual problem.

Choose you this day whom ye will serve. -- Joshua 24:15

Thank you.