We can know rues, regrets, remorses are one but resentments usually stand alone in our mental world. In truth, they are all one. Rues, regrets, remorses, resentments...feel any one of the first three, and without a doubt resentment is the ghost rider.
We get so buckled down ruing and regretting that we don't recognize the teensy-tiny pin prick that has someone else's name on it...Gertrude/Rudy, the real cause of our unease. If she hadn't...if he'd just...the trouble with them is...and the list goes on.
All our rues, regrets, remorses and resentments are selected by us, invited into our head and heart by us and held close there by us...on purpose. We can know that all of our emotions, in fact, come to us by invitation only, but do we own that? Knowing it resides in our brain, owning it resides in our soul.
As long as we try to figure out how to love Gertrude in her mistaken ways, we're up in our head. We may even find the right answer, i.e., cease fighting her, but if we don't go for higher help in doing that, we risk really getting her ire up when we set about doing our self-determined objective all on our own. Attitude speaks louder than words, and an attitude of righteousness masquerading as love is insufferable.
The answer we need is to turn in silence to the Father within...just remembering to do that as our only need is enough. That opens the door. Love flows. How that love is received is of no consequence and concerns us not...for still our only response is love. Always and all ways.
Thank you.
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