CLUELESS BUT TRUSTING

Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. -- Anonymous

From my own experience, I can attest that spiritual principles can indeed solve all our problems. The reason why is that all our problems are based in fear. Are born of fear. Arise from fear. Anyway we put it, fear is the birther and the nurturer of all of our problems. According to me.

Spiritual principles alone can release us from fear. We certainly cannot think fear away...reason it gone...forget about it...ignore it...talk it to death. Having tried each and all of these (repeatedly), I can promise the above quote is true.

Here's a bare-butt fact: Any and every solution for the dissolution of the fear in our being is born in our reasoning mind...ergo, our mind is focused on fear alone which only increases the fear. It matters not how high-flown the thoughts we use are in trying to allay our fear, fear is our center at that point in time.

The answer is quite simply to change our mind, change our focus. That answer, of course, brings the next question right behind it: How? Let go and let God. It is that simple and that complex both at the same time. But trying to do that surely does takes our mind off our fear. Ah-ha!

There are those who would rather try meds, magic mushrooms, marijuana, etc., but God's cheaper, lasting and legal in every state. Plus if those are a real fix, why are there so many treatment centers for the recovery from their use?

The first spiritual principle we can go to (because it is easy to remember when in a panic) is "Thank you." The second one is "Thank you for my everything just as it is right this very instant." And isn't that counterintuitive, paradoxical and just plain crazy to the reasoning mind?

There's the key...it is reliance on the reasoning mind that we must needs let go of. Anything we're focused on trying to get shed of doubles down in its efforts to stay...it's the old don't-think-of-an-elephant story. What we resist, persists...another great old adage.

So we do our own doubling down and turn our thoughts to the God of our own understanding which is exactly what spiritual principles do: Spiritual principles turn our focus to God. And what is God but love? And there it is. A clueless but trusting "thank you" to the God of our own understanding may be the most calming and loving thing we will ever do for our self.

Thank you.