GOD CAN AND WILL...LET HIM

I love when I get my "marching orders." That's when I realize what I need do, and then read in one of my daily readers exactly that. 

For instance,  at 6:00 AM this morning during my quiet time, I knew to overcome my current resistance to another I needed to take the focus off the other and/or the words of the other: I wrote: learn to look beneath the words of another that I feel resistant to...the words and the person...to look beneath is to seek to understand...ah, rather than to seek to be understood. [Note: This is neither new nor different information...it came to me, and I noted it because it came to me.]

Then at 6:59 AM, I read the "Daily Meditation" of Fr Richard Rohr, and there:  Open yourself to seeing things through “the eyes of the other.” Seek a friendship with someone with whom you disagree politically. Look for things to praise in others, even when they vote differently. Learn about building equitable community in which everyone has a fair stake. Don’t contribute to polarization. 

There. My marching orders.

Often we realize a defect of character that needs to be removed, we pray that God remove it already, then we get busy trying to remove it. And miss the mark by a mile. 

Here's the thing we fail to do, even though our instructions are specific: We fail to humbly ask God to remove it. Face it, "humbly" is the key...that takes the self out of it, turns our self-determined objective into an acknowledgement that our Father has already done the deed...and we are grateful. 

Then we act on that...we act, screw up, act, screw up, act...until we get it right, and usually do not realize we got it right until way passed the real time of it. Mostly, it's in looking back that our spiritual growth becomes our reality...others may see it in us before we realize it. 

We say, "That wasn't me, I couldn't have done that," when, in fact, it was me...operating from our new consciousness.   

God can and will if sought.

Thank you.