LOVE AND LAUGH...GOD'S WILL

To live without self-centered expectations is the secret of freedom in personal relationships, e.g., I get irritated not at you but at my idea of you. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By," October 4

According to me, attack thinking is nothing more nor less than self-pity mentally weaponized.

It takes a while to see that self-pity is weaponized against our own self. We cling to our inner victim's hair shirt...feeling unloved, unwanted, unneeded and unappreciated. Justified!

That weapon is the blindfold that refuses entry to our new way of seeing. From our eyebrows up, we can recognize it for its poison but to loose it and let it go?...ah, there is our life's work. 

The first Step on this journey is willingness. Willing to be nonresistant to being thought wrong, less-than, the fool...and to know in our heart that those are the words that are opening us to our Father who stands at the door and knocks.

Here's where our reasoning mind and our spiritual mind meet and meld...where our (reasoning) attack mind meets the peace of (spiritual) self-acceptance.  

Self-pity comes calling when we invite in our interpretation of others' thoughts, feelings, motives in relation to us. Invariably, we're taking ourself too seriously which is also known as the reasoning mind's playground, 

There it is...self-acceptance, wrapped in taking ourself too seriously, wrapped in love and laugh. 

Love and laugh...God's will.  

Thank you.