OBEY, ACCEPT, WALK FREE

Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. -- Matthew 18:3

To become as a little child is good for both material and spiritual mind. My material mind's first thought on becoming as a little child is of a child who is sweet, lovable, cute...and silent. Well, a little child is not always sweet, lovable, cute, and SILENT..they squawk a lot, that's how they get the attention they seek.

That's also how they get the discipline they need. Ah, that's the important part that is left out of the  reasoning mind's picture and opens us to the spiritual's daunting invitation toward acceptance through discipline.

We learn early enough that discipline is a necessary component in learning. It is in learning to obey that which we've learned that twists our knickers. And not for either a short period or a long period of time...for EVER.

All the spiritual axioms that have ever been written are rooted in obeyance...I'm betting. The ones I know are at any rate...they are all about (a) thinking of the other person first and (b) with love. I am here to testify that letting go of self-centered anything takes discipline. Letting go of self covers it...but, then, what doesn't that cover?

Becoming as a little child is to become and to stay teachable. There it is...the marriage of the material and the spiritual mind. Both need us to be teachable....for EVER.

Teachable through every step we take, or for every step we have taken, in the wrong (self-centered) direction. Makes no never mind if good was our goal when we took that step, what matters is that we let go of our justification and accept the lesson learned. We made a decision based on self that later placed us in a position to be hurt. 

Obeyance unto acceptance of that spiritual axiom is the gateway to Heaven. Discipline walks us to and through.

Thank you.