I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU HEAR

My morning blinding flash of the obvious: I'm woke, I just haven't had my coffee yet.

Long-ago lesson learned: I am not responsible for what you hear me say, nor am I responsible for how you choose to interpret what you hear me say.

That has grown up to be:  S/He is not responsible for what I heard him say, nor is she responsible for how I choose to interpret what I heard said. Then I turn my thoughts to God for a better translation...that shuts down the old ego-judging before it can get a toehold.

A new lesson aborning: Fairly recently, I was advised that it has become unfashionable to call God God...it's too Christian, I am told. No, we must say Higher Power or any number of things except God. Guess who resisted that on hearing it...while God grinned. 

I submit we all are invited from within our own self to name our source of good and stand on it. My source of good came to me as God, and until my God lets me know he has changed his name, I stand on it. 

But I did seek God's help in opening my mind, and here's the short-form of what I got to help me in not resisting (overmuch) others generic name for their source of good: Say we hear someone speak of praying to their Whatever...instead of getting all up in our head resisting the name we're hearing, we can shoot a quick thank you prayer to our source of good. As in, "Thank you for this opportunity to turn for your help with my hearing and translating since it is all for good anyhow. You've got the power, I need it now. Please and thank you." 

Thank you.