Denial of self is the answer...or so I wrote in my "God Calling" on this date in 1988. I read that today and cannot disagree...proving that has me a tish puzzled.
I have two recent missteps in my life that have furnished a home in my brain and Lucy is their decorator. I have welcomed, laughed, pretended to love...taken all my known steps to loose them and let them go. They are still with me.
As I read my 1988 BFO this morning, I wondered...how? In this regard, how do I deny self?
And it occurs to me even as I type that God knows about these missteps, knew about them before they happened, thus has already fixed them. Denial of self is to keep turning my thoughts away from my missteps, but not to the fix...that way just leads to obsessing about what that fix is going to look like.
No. I turn my thoughts to the assurance that there are no missteps in God's world to fix. I have been taught and I have experienced everything works together for good. I get out of the way of God's mind sweeper, and I feel the grace of gratitude.
Thank you.
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