THE SOLUTION LIES WITHIN

According to the Sermon, we are to love our enemy and our friend in like measure...not only that but we need to bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us and pray for those which despitefully use us and persecute us. In other words, treat us shabbily. 

Trust this if not that: All the justified resistance we hold dear...payback, revenge, resentment...is as moth to a flame and as necessary as teats on a bull. 

Through my own (admittedly limited) experience, I know this to be doable, this loving our enemy as our self. Ah, but it is doable only when (not if) we shuck our shields utterly...which, after all, is the certain-sure prerequisite for most all spiritual growth.  

Only shield-less can we love our enemy and our friend in like measure for God has entered our heart. We find ourself willing to look within...to find the fault within.

Remember...the fault line that brought down the Great Dam ran within.

When there is something that is wrong and you know it and you can see exactly what it is that is wrong and you try to fix it and it does not fix and you try again, harder, and it stays unfixed...you are looking in the wrong direction. You are looking out there...at the problem. Look within. To the solution...spiritual principles. All spiritual principles are within us, have been there since before conception, will be there three days after we are dead...and 1,000 years after the world as we know it is no more, spiritual principles will be in the ether...waiting to be realized and released by a willing soul once again. -- Blinding flash of the obvious from February 9, 2017

Thank you.