I could almost wish it weren't true, but it is a fact: I have extremely high standards for other people.
I'm glad I don't wish that fact away, because most times when I catch myself mentally applying those high standards (i.e., sitting in judgment), I laugh. And that right there is all the proof I need that God lives...within me, without me...for I am convinced that only my own laughter can deny my ego Lucy her power. To Lucy there is no finer feeling than sitting in judgment. And it makes no difference who she's sitting in judgment of...you, me or the mailman, she just loves sitting in judgment.
Conversely, when I suspect you are mentally applying your high standards to me (i.e., same goes, sitting in judgment), there's no laughter to be found in me for Lucy is the filter of that suspicion. She's the filter, the Censor, the Judge, the jury...and this is no laughing matter because it is not fair.
The good news is I know that about me and old Lucy. The better news is I know that self-knowledge alone avails us nothing. The best news: It is self-knowledge married up with the Father within that brings love and laughter.
There. According to me that's a spiritual principle, and spiritual principles are the solution to all life's problems.
Thank you.
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