We pray to be relieved of the bondage of self, and the fact is, anyone who has walked through the fire of their own making and arrived at the other side a changed person has been relieved of the bondage of self...through a power greater than self.
That's the jump-up-and-shout-hallelujah news. The uh-oh news is, now we walk it...daily. That lesson takes a long time learning, the length of time being entirely dependent on our want-to.
We are told that we need to love our enemy as our self. Now there's a change-your-mind lesson. But we're willing; so. starting small, we ask: Do we really want to give over to our current enemy Gertrude who is being snarky, mean and selfish? Of course we don't...we're not entirely stupid.
Our lesson has just begun: We must needs take it a tish lower to reach our higher self. Are we willing to see what in us is being...uh-huh...snarky, mean and selfish? And we find that teensy tiny sliver, now we hang on to it because there's our gold. That's what we keep turning to when our mind again and yet again goes to Gertrude's ugliness.
Our beginning to break comes when we realize that we simply cannot let Gertrude off the hook by our thinking, talking, self-willing, me-wanting. That brings our breakthrough...we see Gertrude as our angel in disguise for it is her snark that opened our eyes to our snark and our utter inability all on our own to change that.
Our inability cracks our tightly self-sealed door and a force for good seeps forth changing everything...our outward view, our inner being...and Gertrude.
There it is...our ah-ha moment. We recognize the iron chains that formed the bondage of self are just cobwebs, and our job has just become to keep them swept away. Cobwebs cling, and they will cling probably till three days after we're dead. Considering they were our unbreakable iron chains just yesterday, that's to welcome...and grin about.
Another lesson in realizing the gift of love and laughter...and there's our freedom.
Thank you.
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