We can be acting as if in order to look good, snow others, be thought wonderful, or we can be acting as if in order to discipline our self, to get to the place within where we are graced with gratitude.
I had a thought this morning that if I had two days straight wherein I actually walked and breathed the Sermon, the prayer of St. Francis, I would feel like a million bucks. With that thought, I realized the instant that I felt like a million bucks, I would lose the gift. Talk about your slow learners. Apparently, I'm just realizing, it is to walk/breathe the Sermon without conscious choice that we hold the gift.
Being thought wonderful is so very ego-enticing...compared with graced with gratitude which nobody gets but our own self unless we tell it...and then we lose it. More proof that God, too, is cunning, baffling and powerful, and even more so.
We don't feel good about our self for having walked God's way, we only feel not good about our self for walking ego's way.
Choose you this day whom ye will serve. -- Joshua 24:15
Thank you.
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