TO SHOW CIVILITY IS GOD AT WORK

Civility. My thoughts keep coming back to civility.

Mentally righting all the "sins of the world" is where all wars start, according to me...mentally being the key word. It was a wake-up to me when I recognized that my attack mind would go for the kill before the problem was ever clearly present.

With that passing thought came the word "civility."  Civility, politeness and courtesy in behavior or speech. 

Civility, natural civility in thought, word and deed, cannot not be the answer, but, face it, individually we have a whole lot of rough, albeit self-willed, road to get over before we're walking that answer. 

To get over our own self must needs be the priority in living the still more spiritual growth we seek so diligently...and fail at fairly consistently. 

Paradox alert! It is our failures that prove our diligence...to quote "God Calling," That is in itself a sign of progress. What else would humble us enough to turn us to God...repeatedly.

Boiled right down to the bone, the essence of spiritual growth is to get over ourself. The baby step toward getting over ourself is civility. Exhibiting courtesy. Showing care and concern for others. I maintain that cannot be done by self-will alone...showing care and concern maybe we can, but not consistently. And showing it is not living it. 

It can be done, and happily, by living a turned-over life. A life turned over to the care and concern of God, that Force for naught but good within us all. 

Flash: Use it or lose it. Live that which we believe we believe, or,,,quitcherbitchin and trust Lucy With the Football. 

Shortcomings you had hardly recognized or at least for which you had had no sense of sorrow, now cause you trouble and dismay. Courage. That is in itself a sign of progress. -- "God Calling," June 4

Thank you.