I've been pondering why we go to God for God and that is all meets so much resistance. It may be that our wants make us incapable of detaching from our own idea that we know what we need. (...and, says my ego Lucy, "It is a tish more than God and that is all, but thanks anyway.").
Even when we're finally brought to the divine rightness of we go to God for God and that is all, we tend to forget that we must take a gazillion steps...or more!...in the trip to get there. Here is where our reasoning mind earns its keep. That's how we learn that it is not God who is slow, it is our reasoning mind that is the hold-up.
We learn and relearn that we cannot beat, curse, shame or seduce our reasoning mind into submission. Powered by the patience that we were born with, yet so rarely use, we learn the imperfect art of self-discipline as we begin daily cajoling our reasoning mind into willingness to cede to God.
Then, one fine day and out of the blue, we know. We know in short, that our race is run, our fight is finished...we have become willing to get over our own self. There's our blinding flash of the obvious: We go to God for God and that is all because God's will is the only will.
Thank you.
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