WE ALONE CANNOT...OH, BUT WE WANT TO

We must open out a way for [love] to escape by fulfilling the commands of the Master. -- "The Gift of Love," by Joel Goldsmith

Here's truth as I understand it: Truth is love. The only lack there is lies in one's ignorance of the love that lives within us. Our ignorance leads to the inability to release that love that was given us before conception and is ever there ready to be released. Love is not a sentimental attachment, not an emotional feeling...love is God's hidey-hole.

According to Goldsmith, the way to release that love is by following the words of the Master. Which brings yet another paradox in that the problem and the solution are one: the words of Jesus are the one hundred percent opposite of our reasoning mind's dictates.

Resist not evil does not make reasoning mind sense. Love our enemies? Give me a break...it's hard enough to love friends...to love loved ones!

The will of God seems to be diametrically opposed to the will of humans. God is love, thus his will is love, and that is all.  We, however, are ego-driven, and ego legislates for itself. My ego Lucy has nothing but the best of intentions, namely, to win. And winning by love alone?...nah, can't work.

Interestingly, according to Goldsmith, we must open out a way for love to escape. Sounds like a closely held secret, doesn't it? It might as well be for face it, the reasoning mind dares not risk nonresistance, or giving over, giving up, giving in...or, in a word, love.

Now for the real closely held secret...all of that requires just one thing: completely, utterly and finally denial of self. Whoa! Scalded cat! Or tallest mountain...makes no never mind, we alone cannot do that.

Ah, we've just found our pearl beyond price, the opening for love to escape...we alone cannot do it; oh, but we want to.  All our troubles, Lord, soon be over.

Thank you.