I've long been a believer that learning to take nothing personally is the path to God's hidey-hole.
Which leads me to answered prayers. Learning unto acceptance that answered prayers seldom even resemble the result we sought may be one of life's hardest lessons to remember. That's why thank you is so important for us to hold to...that's the proof of our open mind. To pray thank you and mean it in the face of an apparent Oh, no! can only be God calling.
I am in the midst of such an answered prayer right now...which invites me to prove how well I've learned to take nothing personally. The miracle is that I know this even as I go forward...know it from my toes to my nose. The tripwire is the human condition...it is such that from the nose up, our reasoning mind runs the show or wants to.
Sometime back, I said to an acquaintance, out loud and in perfect sincerity, that I wanted to be able, just as Jesus did, to have calumny visited upon me and to answer, to respond, not at all. Yes. I did say that. And I meant it. I still do, only not out loud anymore...I'd forgotten the command: Tell no one.
Here's the nut of my learning: (a) I can reasonably understand that for whatever reason, my acquaintance took my statement personally, as a personal offense, and she is delivering my answered prayer. (b) I can spiritually believe that my acquaintance is my angel in disguise, and she is delivering my answered prayer.
I am at peace with this learning process, and I can say with experiential authority that one of my life's hardest lessons today is to remember to take nothing personally and to keep the emphasis on her as my angel for she is only carrying the message I sought.
This is my own answered prayer, and I am grateful for this proof of God in my life.
Thank you.
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