We want so much to change...to change for the better...for our idea of the better.
We get the quiet word: In the instant of our desire, the change is made. I believe that to be true. The me-problem being the change is made not as we wish it to be, not according to our idea of the better, but as the Father knows our need to be.
In not recognizing God's change, all our rues, regrets and remorses follow in the wake of our attempts to make the change...uh-oh...according to our self-determined objective, our own idea or what we want.
Spiritual growth is in its roots, not in its blossom. Our roots are our growth, there is neither need nor room for thinking, talking, "venting." Still more spiritual growth only grows deeper.
Howsomever, never knock the blossom...the blossom is visible proof that God is growing us. (Lest we forget, the blossom has a very, I'm talking very, short shelf-life.) Our major error though is in taking credit, even silently, for the beauty of the blossom. We can gratefully appreciate our God-growth within our soul...but humbly bragging that we had nothing to do with it is ego on parade.
Maybe it is true...life is all about simplifying. We start with learning, with education; we move upward putting to use what we learned, including a lot of falls, bumps and bruises which birth our need for spirituality in some form or fashion. We start the divine trudge with a changing of our mind about what we've learned and lived; we slowly exchange our mind from earthly to heavenly...and we know peace.
We let go of self and gratefully accept of myself I am nothing, the Father doeth the works.
Thank you.
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