When I say that to go to God for aught but God, even for health, wealth and happiness for my enemy, is staying in the material mind, I must make clear that the offense is in the word "for." To go to God for anything keeps us in the reasoning mind. The Father knows our needs.
We go to God in gratitude. We go to God asking for nothing, thanking him for everything, as, for instance, our daily bread.
Then we move it up a step deeper: We go to God in gratitude for the less than wonderful appearing in our life. Those things in particular we embrace for those are our chosen tools. According to me, these are the tools we personally selected before conception in order to facilitate our return journey to Heaven.
Sidebar: This belief of mine always reminds me of a novelty song that was popular when I was in high school. I can only remember the one line, but it tells the story: "When they were passing out noses, I thought they said roses, and I said, 'I'll have a big red one.'" For whatever convoluted reason, that helped me accept my defects as my personally selected God tools...as I wailed, "That's not what I meant!"
Learning unto acceptance that the oh-no events in our life are our chosen tools to get to God is our breakthrough. Until we learn that, we waste our breath and God's time praying for him to remove them. An oh-no can take an entire day...week? month? longer?...until we learn to welcome it. Welcome it with praise and thanks for what else will or has held our concentrated attention for so long? And there it is. It is our stairway to Heaven.
Name it "Blessed" and get happy for it's on its way to being transmuted. Which means we're on our way to free...humbled but free. Humbled and free.
Happy, joyous and free.
Thank you.
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