Doesn't that knock your socks off? The very truth of it...followed immediately by the very impossibility of it. ("Impossibility" being code for "I don't want to.")
I do try to keep a fairly constant "thank you" running in my mind...not for anything in particular, but for everything that my eyes see, that my ears hear. If I can see it, if I can hear it, my ego Lucy can take it personally (resist it) in a heartbeat. Without gratitude I will follow her over the edge into resentment just that quick.
All we need to remember when we're given "impossible" spiritual direction for upgrading our own thoughts and/or behavior is: Get grateful. Get grateful for that impossible direction since it is gratitude that hands it over to God.
Our problem is we waste precious God time in trying to figure out how we can do that, why we can't do that, whether we should do that, all of which is Miracle-Gro to our resentment. That's Lucy's playground, there is no spiritual growth there.
He goes before us to make the crooked places straight.
Thank you.
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