He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me...those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. -- The Buddha
Those are the words, and more like those, that I must return to repeatedly and yet again. Setting our self on the path toward still more spiritual growth is a fairly constant NO to our ego.
I was gifted with an opportunity to give over, give up, give in to Gertrude recently...and I took the opportunity, as in, I resisted not.
My ego Lucy has been arm wrestling with the fact of it since. I suspect that is the why of my blinding flash of the obvious this morning: A self-determined objective is God's will unrealized...with grit and grime attached. It is the root of love aborning...when it is ready, when ego is caught unawares, it shows forth clean and pure.
I realize this is me still in the self-determined stage of my spiritual growth...I'm doing my nonresistance, sometimes by grace, sometimes by grit, whichever matters not. Do away with regretting that I didn't slap her silly, do away with regretting that I regret that I didn't slap her silly. Just do it. Which I did.
The most important thing to remember is that we cling to the fact that it's all the root of love aborning.
A simple analogy: We plant a beet-seed in our garden. That seed takes root and begins growing into a beet...still covered in dirt unseen by our eyes even as we carefully tend to it. It is our tending and Nature working together that grows the beet with Nature having the final word on its readiness. Ah, then it comes forth...to nourish us.
Same goes with love. The seed of love takes root within, we tend to it with God ever guiding. When we are ready, love fills us unto overflowing...and we are nourished.
Thank you.
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