UNTIL LOVE FLOWS FORTH FROM WITHIN

My quiet time began this morning with my thinking:

Relationships changing and/or breaking up - Gertrude and Ruckus and my mentor and those moving on - initiation? 

To take nothing personally, especially the mean one, Gertrude...in my eyes, she is acting hurtfully, spitefully, I doubt her eyes see it thus. I'm betting she sees me in that light. God, thank you for opening my eyes to see aright, and to know seeing aright is with the eyes and mind of love - to know it and to show it. 

“It is the very love of Christ that now urges us.” Is that what Gertrude is showing me, the very love of Christ? Is that what I need to show Gertrude? How?

It was the thought that this might be initiation that opened me to the first time I ever heard of initiation in re spiritual growth. It was in my beloved "God Calling" of March 29: Initiation precedes all real work and success for Me.

I sailed past that sentence for many years until I read in a Joel Goldsmith book of the many initiations that we must experience in order to grow spiritually. 

My thoughts this morning led me to ponder taking nothing personally. That is an art, an act of purity not of our own self, meaning it is hard to do and impossible if we're just self-willing. It's just so many words until it is flowing forth from within.

Then the act of initiation itself bubbled up for pondering. It seems I've been thinking of the initiation we must go through as some mystic mind game that we just think our way through...up to the next level, as it were.

I realized that it matters not if it's initiation or real...if I'm experiencing it, it is real to me. Those who go through the rites of any initiation must do that which is presented to them in order to either be accepted or to move on up to another level.

Initiation or not, we must walk through the  pain, feel it, detach from our own resistance to the act of loving it...for this, too, is God.

Hoo, boy.

I am grateful that you've got my work cut out for you, Lord.

Thank you.