I want to judge/snicker at his whining about his children not understanding him and the hard, hard life he has had...and I immediately think that his children have had a harder life just living with him.
From my eyebrows up, I know that judgment is on my judgment. This, of course, is not new news to me...it's not pretty, but it's not new.
In looking deeper within, I recognize this is part of the pattern I've been feeling, touching on in my journal...some of my "old" feelings making themselves felt again. (As has been said, they're not old if we're still using them.)
With that recognition, comes the solution to my problem thoughts: Most important was the discovery that all of my problems could be solved by spiritual principles. -- Anonymous
My primary principle, made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of God, seeps into my mind, and I am comforted. I recall that this decision is not "made," then we get up and walk away, never to think of it again. We recommit to it as needed, sometimes daily, but we set no time limits...we trust our Father within and follow suit.
With that principle surfacing, comes a blinding flash of the obvious: We are not to overcome Trump and/or Trumpers...we are to welcome them with compassion in our head, heart and soul...for to self will compassion is to patronize. Clearly, the same goes for all my Gertrudes. There it is...problem solved.
Now, to walk my solved problem, to welcome all with heartfelt compassion, requires me to spend some serious time with the God of my understanding for of myself, that ain't gonna happen.
I love it...and laugh for I do spend serious time with God daily. I quiet my reasoning mind and listen for the still, small voice within which assures me that God has already solved my problem.
I can only know it by showing it; I can only show it by living it; I can only live it by recommitting to my primary principle as needed.
Thank you.
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