Friday, September 30, 2016

LET GO, LET GOD, LOVE AND LAUGH

Failures come from depending too much on your own strength. -- Anonymous

According to me, that is the punchline of the Sermon On The Mount...the inner message as it were. The Sermon is all about giving over...agree with  your adversary quickly and resist not evil and if someone steals your coat, run after them and give them your cloak and if someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek.

I do not believe that there is a one of those that we can do relying on our own strength alone. That is the definition of ego deflation...our strength alone, be it mentally or physically (and there is no spiritually alone), will never suffice

Our trouble comes from settling for temporary fixes...if it feels right and good and we get kudos, within or without, we believe it is God's will and move on it. When it falls apart, after a day, a week, a year or two, we are shocked, scared and peeved...at God. And usually hold tighter to the now problem because we are convinced that was God's will for us...and it might have been, but God's will moves on.

Our lesson to learn is that the time that it seemed to work was necessary to our life to move us forward toward our rightful place. A further part of that lesson is that there will be many temporary rightful places that grow mold and must be left behind. There is always something higher, some place deeper that comes from that temporary holding place.

The first time I experienced this was a life changer for me. After my first retreat, I was led to a change in jobs, and it felt as though God had my hand and walked me there. It took some time for the job to materialize but every day gave me an eye-opening gift from God toward it. The first day on the job...I'm saying the very first day...it was obvious this was a baaaad move.

That's when I learned that every gift from God is good and true and necessary for the moment of the gift. We learn to give thanks and go forward with it, expecting this, too, shall pass. We will grow from this gift and be led ever higher into the deeper Self. Our job is to let go. That is our always job.

Let go and let God...and love our self and laugh with God at how hard it is to do only that.

Thank you.

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