SHOUT HALLELUJAH!

If we are ever going to get over our want to be right...or at least not publicly wrong...we are going to need to experience the pain of being misunderstood, of being thought wrong, of being the object of gossip, slander and contempt for in there hides our gift of gold.

In learning the ways of still more spiritual growth, that's not all that surprising, is it? We must go beyond reason to love.

It takes a looong time for this to filter without resistance through every fiber of our being. Who's kidding whom, it takes long enough for our brain to just let it in without spitting fire.

Our spiritual gift is the gratitude we experience when we can pray our thank you for whatever is appearing upside down and backwards in our life, and specifically when we feel no resistance to the person we perceive as the root of our pain. (Which may be as close to forgiveness as we get in this world.)

We begin awakening when we recognize that the contretemps is for our own benefit. Then the sun breaks, and we know through us and only through us that this is for the benefit of that other. And there it is...we know it for our own benefit purely because it benefits the other who is accusing us. 

Better yet, they may never realize that. They may go to their grave thinking the less of us, but with their gift of gold intact. Not ours to understand, ours to appreciate that God does indeed move in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform.

Our pure gold. our pearl beyond price, our great stand-up-and-shout gift is our getting over our own self...in loving and laughing and letting it be within. Somebody say Amen.

Thank you.