We pray to have our difficulties "taken away." They never are as we prove to ourself again and again...when they return again and again, albeit and always in a different guise. Trying so hard to rid ourself of our difficulties is akin to unlearning so we can relearn...which is staying in the problem for sure.
Our lesson to learn is the art of acceptance...what else? Our defects are transmuted by our attitude of gratitude...we find ourself laughing at our egoic response and loving anyway. Talk about freedom!
Mayhap our deepest lesson...our ongoing, neverending, lesson is learning to listen with ears of compassion...not to judge but to accept, i.e., to love.
We must learn to listen to hear the speaker whose hidden message is their need...their secret need. To do that we must stop running our own hidden agenda of listening to gather facts against the words being said...then hating the speaker for the words.
The message is never the words but the need hidden behind the words. The need is ever God's to fulfill, and we are God's eyes and ears to use in fulfilling them. With our decision to live a turned-over-to-the-care-of=God life, we are free to be of use to others...any others sent to us.
We do not go trolling, proselytizing or recruiting...no. Our work is much harder than that...we get to sit and wait on the Lord. With an attitude of gratitude. Which is love and laughter, plain and simple.
Thank you.
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