OUR FOREVER SLIVER OF GOLD

I'm pretty well convinced that there is good (a sliver of gold) in everything, that it is our job here on earth to seek and find that good, our gold.

I'm also pretty well convinced the reason it is so difficult to get and hold that idea is our ego along with our reasoning mind kicks in, elbows out the spiritual nature of the message and tries to make it true.

It  is true already. It is true through the grace of God and God alone. Letting that be is an in-depth lesson in detachment...another paradox. We must detach from God gifts or our ego, nestled within our reasoning mind, will surely attach through its efforts to claim ownership of them.

We begin by aligning our will with God's will, the ditch digging of spiritual growth. It is so difficult, because our ego with our reasoning mind are determined to make it true through their will, turning it into a self-determined objective, ego-based and ego-driven. There is no spiritual growth there.

The kicker is that all the ego/reasoning mind efforts to which we are driven are necessary...if we're doing it right! Nothing else is strong enough to send us on a search for a power greater than our self. Who's kidding whom?...if we were born with a mind centered in nirvana, would we seek higher?

There. That's the punchline...the kicker is our forever sliver of gold.

Thank you.