This morning as I read in my "God Calling," Let nothing that others do to you alter your treatment of them, and then my accompanying note, This is my Waterloo...I treat others as I think they have treated me, I felt a melting within me. I knew that I don't live there anymore...I may visit on occasion but seldom rather than often...and I knew a warm sense of gratitude throughout my being.
It may well have been on my reading and noting that, that I was turned from my Waterloo of "self first" toward the way of "others first." I did not know it at the time, but I have read (and since experienced) that it is immediately upon recognizing our defect of character that it is lifted.
We are blessed that we do not realize that until we are ready, and the Father within controls that through our much interior work.
I am grateful today that I do believe that the spiritual way requires that we walk through failure and rejection with a forgiving heart and mind (there's our "others first"). Because it is outside of the realm of reason, I am fairly certain that it is that vulnerability that invites others to follow and do likewise.
Thank you.
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