Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. - John Lewis
Make a decision to be a forgiving person. - Sandy Beach
Again, and yet again, I know the words of John Lewis and Sandy Beach to be the spiritual solution to all my reasoning mind woes, a.k.a., my fears.
Reasoning mind fear of getting covid, of the collapse of our beloved country, of not being able to [fill in], of the need to [fill in].
We must fully, heart-unto-soul realize that hate, division and revenge are in need of forgiveness first before we consider anything else.
Ah, here comes the dawn: Until we know forgiveness as nonresistance, we will live an unforgiving, resisting, life. That life may be only five percent unforgiving, but that five percent will rule us. That five percent, to the reasoning mind, has more power than God for that is where our reasoning mind has found its safety. That's where it feels free to thumb its nose at a so-called Higher Power.
The other ninety-five percent of our utterly unaware rational self will wonder why we cannot trust God fully...and we will worry.
All the pretty words...He goes before us to make the crooked places straight and God can and will intervene in our life in our behalf...are meaningless without our proof of the pudding. That is by living our own personal forgiveness of others...and of our self. Without exception.
We can come to believe in a decision to be a forgiving person, to believe in and to release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge but the actual doing is ours. Only, surprise, surprise! We can do none on our own...as in, without the intervention of almighty God.
He perfects that which is given us to do.
Thank you.
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