ON GIVING OVER...FROM WITHIN

Never be afraid of any circumstances or difficulties that help you to cultivate this calm. - "God Calling," May 10

To "cultivate" is to own our part in the circumstances or difficulties...to recognize this is not for our reasoning mind to figure out, to fix...no, this is our time to turn to God, inviting his intentions to flow for the benefit of all.

I doubt not that a person with the sole objective to love will ever be like the guy forever pushing the one-ton stone up the hill. (Sisyphus by name, my Google tells me.) Being self-determined to love with no thought attached is akin to being determined to not think...or to have a blank slate for a mind. There's an open invitation for the ego and the ism to couple up and tap-dance endlessly in our head.

It is through spiritual growth that we are turned around...graced, if you will, with a desire to be of benefit for another. We become open to love for all flowing out from within. 

From my own personal experience, it takes a conscious decision each time to from within give over, give up, give in. Which tells me that each time is the beginning...the forever beginning...of my growth. 

I do believe the time will come, though I know not when but unlikely in this lifetime, when my intention to love will flow without thought, without want-to...kinda like breathing. I count myself blessed that I am willing.

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. -- Matthew 25:13

Thank you.