LIVE IN ACCEPTANCE AND KNOW PEACE

People are so easy to read if we don't take their stuff seriously (meaning, of course, personally). On any given day, there will be someone who slights us, snubs us, overly praises us...all indications of their dis-ease with us. It says nothing, nada, zilch, zip, zero about us.

And yet....

Letting his dis-ease stay with him, not attaching our self to it, is our job...we cannot shut her up, and we are not supposed to! That is her job, to shut herself up.

Here's the news that we must needs keep learning and relearning: Neither s/he nor I will ever be free if we simply grit our teeth, or tape our mouth, in order to say nothing. Our mind will run...not free, but amok! There it is...the source of all our woes. Our very own mind...undisciplined...is our worst enemy.

And yet....

Invariably, we waste our energy and God's time trying to fix her, to set him straight, to stop the irritation to Me! And we can't even claim ignorance. We know that we know (because the problem is so easy to spot in someone else).

The balm to our irritation lies within our own self. How quickly it soothes us is entirely dependent upon our desire to be soothed. All that holds us back is our decision to stay up in our head fighting him (pretending that we are resisting our ego), rather than simply letting go of our pique at her.

All of the love that is is within us right this very red-hot minute, yet here we come to learn again that neither God nor love is available on demand. We must prepare our heart, by which I mean: Give over. Let go. Cease fighting. Crash and burn. Surrender.

Finally we hit the bull's eye...acceptance. Acceptance is simply giving God the courtesy of letting him go first. Ah. All our troubles, Lord, soon be over.

Thank you.