Forgiveness. I suspect...no, I'm becoming convinced...that forgiveness is the whole of life...period. That's not the only uh-oh...equally important: The rough and rocky road to forgiveness is mapped with the need to take nothing personally.
Looking back, my belief probably started as I sat in the silence pondering that only our unleashed ego can personalize...because that's its job, apparently. Which led me to intellectually get that all is God and of God, so there is nothing we can take personally.
With that mini-breakthrough, I was gifted with my first inkling that spiritual growth, and ever more spiritual growth, is my path to peace. And that is the only splinter of gold I need seek.
In the midst of any ego-victory battle with self (it is never with another), seek that splinter of gold. The battle will continue until we accept that we have personalized whatever we are fighting (resisting) and let go (which takes as long as it takes but longer than it takes to think it, for sure).
It is that single splinter, that blinding flash of the obvious, of spiritual growth as our perfect goal that we are led to freedom...from self.
Sidenote: It was on this day in 1988 that I wrote in my God Calling, "This is my day of realization that denial of self is the answer." And here's me, 30 years later, realizing that still, just deeper.
God never stops teaching, leading, loving and laughing.
Thank you.
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