It is in these wonder-realm attributes [Love, Joy, Peace], all success lies. You have to see your inner lives are all they should be, and then the work is accomplished. - God Calling, January 30
The mental bell-ringer is that "these wonder-realm attributes, Love Joy, Peace" are ours as we breathe them, not as we will them. Ah, but it takes time, and more time, to have them as we breathe.
A positive beginning is opening up to even willing them...to be willing to be willing. It seems when we feel we're all set to show off our Love, Joy, Peace, someone or something will stick a spoke in our wheel...or Gertrude comes along and spits in our eye. There they go out the door and down the street, and our mouth is left a-flapping.
Another hard lesson: Our willingness to know and show Love, Joy, Peace is our invitation to the spoke in our wheel, the uncalled-for nasty. How else could we discover those wonder-realm attributes within us if we never met a problem we could not resolve, a mental distress we did not deserve.
The pearl beyond price...this is how we learn who our angels really are...our many-lived Gertrudes, for instance! It seems s/he is forever gifting us with uncalled for nasties...until we gift ourself with the realization that thank you has transformed those nasties...ah, no. Has transformed the originator of those nasties, and our very heart knows love for our Gertrudes.
And who's the winner now? Why, God flowing through Gertrude and me!
Love our enemies...they are our friends in disguise.
Thank you.
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