IS IT ODD OR IS IT GOD?

Since recovery is a transformational journey, conflict with others is inevitable, and often unavoidable. [Our spiritual journey is teaching us] how to view our differences with others, both personal and philosophical, as opportunities to identify and overcome our knee-jerk reactions to the world in which we live.-- Anonymous

Only self can cast a shadow on the way. - God Calling, February 21

It is my changing me that will change my relationship with Gertrude. - my note to me of 2/21/15

I found it easier to think of love as The Answer when I made a deep dive into just what love means to me. The short answer is, it means nonresistance, which is to live an attitude of surrender, which is acceptance plain and simple.

Acceptance is not resignation...we all know that feeling of there is no hope, might as well lie down and let the world put on its cleats and run across my face. Acceptance, to me, is welcoming whatever I am perceiving, with an attitude of interest in how God's going to use me to work this out.

I feel joy in my heart, very close to elated, that all my readings recently, today in particular, are a variation on the same message...particularly at this point in my life. All deal with our "inevitable conflict with others," and "only self" being the problem, plus the biggie, "change me, change my relationship."

As the old question goes, Is it odd or is it God? My answer: It's God, get over yourself.

Thank you.