There is a story in the Bible about Somebody Important desperately wrestling with an angel. The angel says, "I will not let you go until you bless me." That never made a lick of sense to me until "Thank You" was gifted to me in a blinding flash of the obvious. (And, mind, that is my version of the Bible story.)
And there it is. My entire spiritual foundation today is basically thank you...good, bad, indifferent. Hug it and kiss it and let it [mentally] go.
I'm guessing it's the human condition that we're so slow to learn that The Way with blessing the problem is trusting the blessing but doing what we can to take care of the less-than-wonderful that we're blessing. Today, I'm blessing my spinal stenosis and getting my acupuncture treatments three times a week.
The key is to realize that to "bless" the problem, then to sit and wait to be fixed usually leads to doubting the existence of God or the efficacy of grace.
I'm reminded of the saying that God is not Santa Claus...or, grace is a gift after which we earn the right to keep it.
Thank you.
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