It was a great gettin' up morning when I realized that the hardest thing that would ever be asked of me was that I change my mind.
It was pure and rarified peace when I realized that changing my mind was not of me...it was of God. I suspect I recalled that the difference between my want-to and God's is the difference between a self-determined objective and the perfect objective which is of God.
It was an even greater gettin' up morning, however, when I realized that a changed mind is the first step up to a deeper exchanged mind.
[SIDEBAR: My definition of an exchanged mind: Being raised from our material mind into the spiritual mind, or to leave solid reason for transparent good. For instance, Peter in raised consciousness walked on water...until he had the thought, "I'm walking on water!" And he sank. He went from transparent good to solid reasoning.]
The exchanged mind is not a one-shot deal...we must needs consciously go to our exchanged mind when we first find ourself resisting, judging, denying...anything.
Ah, in a perfect world.
Neither living in a perfect world nor particularly wanting to, we see scrupulosity drum majoring the way. It is a difficult parade to march, a nigh impossible line to hold, the difference between still more spiritual growth and scrupulosity...mainly because spiritual growth allows for mistakes, errors, misjudgments, being flat-out wrong, and scrupulosity does not. Scrupulosity allows for rigid, righteous and right, enough said, shut up already.
Being wrong has a friend...our friend tells us what to do when, not if, wrong. As in, promptly admit it, own it, take personal responsibility for it, hug it and kiss it and let it go. Sent it on its way, it is no longer ours, except for laughs at ourself when revisited in memory.
Scrupulosity's so-called friend lives in "do the next right thing." There's the perfect justification for sitting up in our head trying to decide on the right action to take to keep from being wrong.
"Just do the next thing" is the necessary green light. When our desire is for still more spiritual growth, we need not fret that "just do the next thing" gives us permission to do wrong on purpose...that's just another I See Me doing our thinking for us...to stay us from moving forward.
Comes the awakening...surrender to the nemesis that our reasoning mind has for so long carried tenderly wrapped in needles and brambles is of God and our pearl beyond price.
Our exchanged mind knows that to give over, give up, give in is surrender. Whoa! We realize that surrender is acceptance, and acceptance is perfect peace.
Thank you.
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