THE EVIL IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

All that owns us, all that possesses our minds and hearts, our attachments and compulsions, must be healed and reconciled...from within.  

I am coming to  believe that the Sermon on the Mount in its entirety is the entry exam for moving on up deeper into spiritual thinking. On first reading the Sermon, we follow our reasoning mind which is to say, we ignore it...or Just Say No. 

It takes time and willingness...brought on mainly by our ongoing rues, regrets and remorses...to make a decision to give any part of the Sermon a try. (My first want-to was to believe that the meek shall inherit the earth was not a curse but a personal gift for me. I'd finally let it be true that far from being Wonder Woman, I was Wonder Wuss.)  

When we make that decision, the Sermon begins to  fulfill our need to look beneath the words and find the inner meaning, i.e., God's purpose. We read do not resist one who is evil and know for the evil is in the eye of the beholder. 

Our need is not to understand the other according to our lights for that is still self-driven; the need is to look in our heart not our head for God's vision of the one we are perceiving as evil or wrong. This happens in a nanosecond, and three days after we're dead, we still have more to learn.

When we understand the purpose of the Sermon, we realize how Gandhi could study it daily for forty years...and no doubt die knowing he had more to learn from it. 

As for me, the more I study the Sermon, the more I love the study...trust me, that's another first-class miracle.

Thank you.