As I asked the Lord to save me from myself...again...I recalled learning that asking the Lord for my specified anything is denying what I believe about the Lord: The Father knows my needs. He performth that which is given me to do. And I am very alive to the fact that those are just so many pretty promises unless and until I attain the consciousness from which those words originated; i.e., God consciousness.
As Joel Goldsmith wrote in "The Heart of Mysticism" at p. 1233: You are one with God. Yes, of course you are, but that will not heal [you]. First, you must consciously accept that relationship and then you must get about attaining it.
Get about attaining it...there it is, the challenge of all spiritual growth. In my youth I lived in fear of actively believing in God...I was seriously afraid that I'd become like my grandfather, a run-round-the-church-jump-and-shout-fun-forbidding-religious fanatic...not to put too fine a point on it.
When I started on my path seeking spiritual growth, I was delighted/despairing at how difficult it is. Getting out of ego into God does not come cheap. Ah, but it is the pearl beyond price...the only pearl on our lifeline worth attaining. Since I know that to be true, it is worth laughing about how easily I can still be lured into trying for Lucy's football.
Thank you.
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