A DAILY FOCUSED COMMITMENT

Relying on our reasoning mind leads to resignation. Being powered by self-will, resignation gets us the same-old-same-old...period. The s-o-s-o often ends with us looking for someone to blame.

It takes a daily focused commitment to still more spiritual growth to get over our own self. Ah, but the learning is in what we are focused on...what we are committed to. Say a self-defying problem arises...we tend to want to give that to God to fix...in our favor. And Now.

God can and will solve the problem in our favor...in his way and in his time. Say we, or a loved one, are diagnosed with a dreaded disease...the usual response there is, "Please, God, remove this...take it away...heal me." But dreaded diseases kill and/or maim a lot of people...that may be ours to face.

If we resign our self to our fate of death by this disease, we will die unresolved within...meaning unhappy and often angry...at God. Acceptance of our fate, however, opens us to God's solution in our favor: the mysterious ways of the Lord...a mind at peace, a quietly joyful heart...as we lie dying. Or not. God's will.

This is not "according to me," nor is it a theory. I have been with both cases more than a couple times. It was for me a life-changing experience...in all cases.

Our daily focused commitment is ever: We go to God for God and that is all.

Thank you.