With inward peace, we do not need to resent the person who troubles us. Instead, we can overcome the resentment in our own mind which may have been aroused by that person. -- Anonymous
Blinding flash of the obvious: It is never him/her/them...it is I. I am the source of all my woes. That being so, it follows that I am the source of all my good. All my woes live in the reasoning world for all the world to see; all my good is hidden with my Father within for me to be graced with as needed.
Ego seems to get first crack at incoming life, and everything is personal to ego...which tends to make disgruntled our go-to feeling. Disgruntled is code for resentment, according to me. I wonder if spiritual growth but barely begins until we learn unto realization to personalize nothing...or depersonalize everything.
Learning the words that point us toward spiritual growth is important, learning the meaning behind the words is essential, but until we're doing what we're learning, we are in essence quoting by rote and living on the shifting sands of self-determined objectives.
We learn to pray not for the person we resent, we pray for our thoughts about that person. Our thank you is our claim of ownership...clearing the way for us to understand what in us constitutes our resentment aborning. There...we have our sliver of gold.
We're heading in the right direction: Away from ego toward still more spiritual growth.
And the overcoming is never the overcoming of the one who troubled you, but the overcoming of the weaknesses and wrong in your own nature, aroused by such a one. -- God Calling, July 28
Thank you.
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