Looking back, it's fairly clear to me that trusting that there is never a reason, never a need, to seek the Lord's help has been my hardest lesson not to learn but to live. Our Father knows our needs. There's the promise. Knowing our needs, then, does it make even common sense that he would withhold help? What?...until we asked?...and used the correct language, with all the semicolons in the right place?
We do not need to seek God's help in trusting. We already have all the trust we'll ever need within us right now. It was implanted there at birth along with, among other things, kindness and love, and they are ever ready for our use.
It is from that taproot that our wellbeing flows. Here's the spiritual secret: Our wellbeing comes not from taking thought for our self but from our taking thought for another. It flows not for our own feel-good but for our use in improving our relationships with others...which makes every foe a friend in waiting.
Here again, we rely on our new golden rule: Just try not to be as nasty as you want to be (a lot of spiritual growth comes from not setting the bar too high to begin with).
Thank you.
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