I have read that we must defeat our tendency to try to be holy without being human first, and I know that to be my early-on (up until the next time) stumbling block.
It is hard enough to learn that we must go beyond reason to love (or love your enemy as yourself...whoa!). If, though, we are sincere about our search for still more spiritual growth, we do come to the necessary understanding of their inner meaning. Most often our understanding translates to coming to agree with it as it applies to you. That, too, we can get grateful for since it is that thorn that births our thank you that turns us away from self toward God.
Our reliance on our reasoning mind is our tripwire. Our reasoning mind is a necessary tool in our day-to-day life but we must remember that it legislates for self...ever and always. Common sense is ego's nest, or launching pad, depending on our reaction to whomever/whatever we are perceiving at the moment.
In trying to be holy, we quote turn it over at the drop of another's problem...in being human, we beat our self up because we're flunking our own rigid, righteous and right rule. We come to agree again and again and yet again that self is our only enemy.
We want to let it go...to cling to nothing, to fly. We can't. In that gut-bucket, toenails-up realization we are free. Free to be wholly human. We love it and laugh.
There. That is the fruit of our labor to sincerely turn our will and our life over to the care of our God...ah, now that is holy.
Thank you.
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