There. Our peace must be in our unceasing thank you for our thoughts are stayed on God. I suspect that's how Sandy became a forgiving person, and he could in truth say, when he heard his daughter had been murdered, "I forgive him (the murderer)."
We cannot afford the rabid luxury of hate, fury...resentment, in a word. Resentment is not in our spiritual how-to manual...the one about how to become and be a loving person.
Geez, I just wanted to show love toward the Gertrudes in my life without spending a lot of time around them. Now, here's me with this platter heaped with worms before me.
He prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies.
We say that it's so easy to say the right thing, as in love your enemies, do good to those who persecute you, but truth to tell, easy it ain't. It is not easy for me this morning to say I love the cabal on Capitol Hill Wednesday. Oh, wait. Who's kidding whom? I'm not resisting loving the cabal, I'm resisting loving or even saying that I love the President of the United States...Donald J. Trump. Hiding behind "cabal" and hoping God won't notice.
Again it is clear that our spiritual growth begins and ends with our thoughts. It is the discipline of our thoughts that must get first call. That discipline that turns us first and repeatedly to God until we no longer turn our thoughts, they are stayed on God.
Only then, like Sandy, can we truthfully say, "I forgive him." Until then, I must pray, "Father, forgive me for I know exactly what I do, and I do it anyway." And suffer the burden of my own undisciplined thoughts.
Thank you.
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