Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. -- Seneca
Feeling stuck? Been feeling stuck for awhile? That's when our reasoning mind goes into overdrive, and whoa! The solutions that come out of an impatient (scared) reasoning mind, defy God and common sense.
We decide to move...across town, across country, anywhere just move it on down the road. Or, no. Better idea. Go to the doctor...something is clearly wrong, get a pill. Or, no, wait...maybe therapy...or, better yet, a pill and therapy.
When we're in that stuck place, feeling kinda like our skin is on crooked, rarely, if ever, do we turn to God with an entirely open mind. Meaning, really and truly wanting God's solution. We turn to God asking for our own idea of what we need...a job, a mate, more money. All of which may very well be true!
The good and the bad news both together: God is not going to gift us with a job, a mate or more money. We go to God for God and that is all. There. That is the spiritual answer which defies the reasoning mind. We go to God for God and that is all, and at some point, not on our timetable, we find we have enough...of whatever we need, we have enough.
So, our answer is to not look out there for a solution to stuck, but to stay right where we are and look within. Seek our answer from the honorable force within. That honorable force is our core of gold. And there is an honorable force within else where would we go to get it...Target? Tiffany's? Saint Patrick's Cathedral? The Church of What's Happening Now? We can search high, low and in between, yet until we turn within...doubting all the while but desperation has just become our friend...we will remain in our self-determined objective, i.e., stuck, wanting a job, a mate, more money.
If we are seeking still more spiritual growth, just when we know we are unbearably stuck with no hope of ever breaking free, we are imbued with grace.We realize gratitude for everything in our life just exactly as it is right this very minute. And we whisper, "Thank you."
Thank you.
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