Hard lesson learning: We're looking for a spiritual teacher? There she is right in the midst of our idle thoughts...the one we are compulsively setting straight in our own mind, the one who is irritating us right this minute. He's the one. And there is somebody, isn't there?
This, I'm guessing, is why we are taught to love our enemies. They are the harbinger of the love hidden within us. Or, to get right common about it, our thoughts are the manure that fertilizes that love and brings it forth.
Praise her, call his name "Blessed." Lift them up. But not before (and this is vital) not a second before we have gone to God, gone deep within our own self, and sought forgiveness for our own mistakes, missteps, judgments against him, against her, against them.
Else all we have is a self-determined objective, and a self-determined objective's object is self.
We go trying to love our enemy without going to God first, we've got another resentment aborning, and it will be deeper than the first one. We've made our self a saint in our own mind, and if we get anything less than grateful adoration in return (and you bet we will), then we're left with just another edition of As The Stomach Turns. Authored by our own self.
We can do better than that...but only by going to God first for that is the necessary letting go of the results of our attempts to love. Going to God, seeking to know and to show love to another, is God's singular will for us. According to me.
Thank you.
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