People waste so much time in seeking to work out what they see. I declare to you that in the seeing My purpose, all is done. -- "God Calling," April l1
When we read that, we are best served by realizing that the words "all is done" mean all God's work is done. Our work, however, has just begun...we get to learn what "our work" really is. It is learning the art of detachment.
The art of detachment is letting go of our reasoning mind's answers, solutions, fixes. We must needs remember at all times that the reasoning mind is always legislating for itself. Even when...especially when...we're running the con that we are thinking, doing, speaking for the benefit of the other.
"Friends," one of my all-time favorite sit-coms, did a vignette once where Phoebe was determined to do something that would not, could not, in any way benefit her. It was wonderfully funny in her inability to do just that. That's the meat of the matter...we cannot determine to do for another without in some way benefitting our self.
Detachment begins our process of learning to think little...the art of minimization. We start in the most minor of pushback situations with our simple goal being to remember to give both the other and our self our due. We fairly quickly realize that we cannot do that. There's our decision to get out of God's way and to welcome God's perfect outcome.
Most often, my perfect outcome is me not being as nasty as I want to be while trying my sincere best to not react in kind to Gertrude being as nasty as she wants to be. And succeeding by not harboring a resentment after the fact. It's a thin, thin rope we walk.
The payoff, thought, is this is the beginning of real self-acceptance which underneath it all is our acceptance of the powerlessness of self.
Here's the gold..after our mighty struggle in this first minor pushback, we get to laugh about it. Ah, God is truly on the field.
Thank you.
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