Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself. - My inexact memory of Christ Jesus's two commandments.
I'm reminded of those two commandments by my "God Calling" notes that I wrote on this day, the first in 2005 - Love is not personal, and the second in 2007 - Practice living love by loving adversity the same as no adversity.
Jesus went on to teach the same love goes to our enemies. That teaching is still today being disputed by many. But, of course we must love our enemy as our self. What else could it be? It is reasoning mind simple to love a neighbor, or a friend, or our folks, or our dog. But to love our enemy? That is not reasoning mind, we must go beyond reason to love. Whole new plane of consciousness
Love is not personal came to full perk for me in 2005, but my inner eye had been glimpsing that for awhile...maybe from the time of my first realization that "resist not evil" is the answer, and "thank you" covers all the thinking on that.
When practice living that impersonal love by welcoming adversity as if it were not adversity came to me, it made sense because I had been given to believe that the Father knows our needs. Knowing, then, means all our prayers have already been answered, all our apparent problems have already been fixed. Adversity/not adversity...the walking-around ingredients of our life to be met with love, nonresistant love. And that is all.
Do note that it is important to accept that we do not live that 24/7, first, because we are plain old brown bag humans. and, second, because our ego speaks louder than God. We truly must get quiet and listen for the Lord...my dear Lucy shouts like a banshee just passing the time of day.
That's why the second note is vitally important...the word practice heads us in the right direction, living puts the cap on it. That's it...for the rest of our lives: Practice living love by loving adversity the same as no adversity.
If we are doing life right, adversity will visit itself upon us whenever it wants to...for the rest of our life. So will "versity" but we can just bask in that...and with the exact same "thank you."
Thank you.
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