OUR ANGELS IN DISGUISE

Bless our enemies for they are our angels in disguise.

Our enemies are not the Gertrudes and the Herkimers of our world. Our enemies are our fear, our pride, our arrogance, our refusal to forgive and/or to ask for forgiveness. Looking over the list, the word that tells the tale: our. Meaning me, my, mine.

I am the source of all my woes. Paradoxically, I Am my spiritual source.

All it takes to live in the spiritual source is the willingness to detach, surrender, take nothing personally, accept. In the eye of a needle, so to speak, get over our self.

We've got to believe that "want to" counts, but if we stay stuck there (giving our self credit into the bargain), we're opting for ego...still trying to make an end run around God. It may be that it is so hard to give over because it requires an act of our free will...that gift from God that is very like a diamond in the rough. It takes some deep cleaning to get that diamond ready for market, i.e., our walking around world.

Without the self-discipline necessary to study unto living the guidelines lived and taught by the Buddha, Muhammed, Christ Jesus, Pope Francis, Abraham Lincoln and so many others, our free will remains our ego's glory land where "It's all about me."

The fact is that recognizing the necessity for self-discipline only comes from catastrophic suffering or divine intervention...and catastrophic suffering happens a lot more often than divine intervention due purely to our relying on our free will.

Our journey is made easier when we accept that our free will is to be used for choosing the best guide for us to follow in order to return that free will to our Father p.d.q. We exchange our free will by detaching, surrendering, taking nothing personally, accepting...and laughing at how hard we make that.

Choose you this day whom ye will serve. -- Joshua 24:15

Thank you.