Morning blinding flash of the obvious: We must make our egoic self (our mental image) smaller, lesser, teeny-tinier...give up the self's wants for glory or for sympathy.
Ah, comes the dawn: Thank You really is the only tool we need to get over our own self.
Thank You for the people, places and things that we resist. By our resistance, they goose us into thank You and thus become our angels. That transformation only happens when, not if, we realize (never self-determine) it as so.
Plainly, when we realize our crooked places are our rues, regrets, remorses, we see they come to us by our invitation only...that it be God who perfected them for our benefit. Then we are freed to hunker down with them and make them a home in our heart.
To paraphrase Fr Richard Rohr, enlightenment (inner-realization) comes through great love or great suffering. He also says, "We come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong." (No great wonder that I follow Rohr.)
Love and laugh.
Thank you.
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