Tuesday, November 14, 2017

IT'S ALL JUST ANOTHER ANSWERED PRAYER

Until I am doing that which I am learning, I am as a court jester which makes mock of all that I am learning. I don't know if that is literally true, but I do believe that there is no spiritual growth in talk, just talk. Mainly because the prettier the sound, the more we build on the sound of it, we strain to make the pretty words prettier, to sound deeper, to impress more (the impressed often being only our own self).

The paradox being, of course, that shared talk is essential...I choose to believe that if my thoughts are not expressed to another's ears, I'm still living in fantasy.

It may be that we talk in order to learn how to listen. To truly listen to the other side of what I'm saying and believing is an art that I am in the slow process of learning. The trick is to listen to another who is coming from the same state of consciousness as our own. Who's kidding whom...there's little growth that will come from talking virginity to a prostitute.

I'm guessing that's why (and I'll paraphrase here) Jesus advised us when we come into a town that does not welcome us, to shake the dust off our feet and move on. There will always be people and topics that do not fit us...move on before we buy in.

Resistance just keeps us nailed to our cross of self-will, and self-will is the toughest to kiss on the lips and release in order to move on. To move on without toting the other's baggage in our mind...ah, there's the hard lesson alearning,

Maybe that's why God gave us free will...which is ego's playground, according to me. When we can and will turn from our want to win in any form, and welcome God's perfect will in any form, we will know peace. In other words, when nothing but God will crack our resistance, that's answered prayer.

Thank you.

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