If you curse him, he will bless you; if you harm her, she will serve you; and if you exploit him, he will become your benefactor. - Eknath Easwaran, Words to Live By, May 21
Well, there it is...the difference between wanting still more spiritual growth and willing to do still more spiritual growth.
I love that quote and probably cite it every year. I once actually experienced my own inward blessing toward someone who had publicly mocked me, and its warm aftereffects continue to this day. But, who's kidding whom, I would not choose it as an everyday sport.
Continuing lessons a-learning: To grit our teeth and try to bless, serve, benefit, etc., is a self-determined objective, and that is an Uh-Oh loud and clear. Even spiritually based words, when self-propelled and self-actuated, are primarily for self. Their payoff is a glorified self...but only to self, most often off-putting to others. Yikes.
We can take comfort though...if we only know from our eyebrows up that this we seek, still we are heading in the right direction. That, too, is a God-gift.
What we must recognize unto acceptance unto realization is that our will is our want-to which only legislates for self, whereas God's will is love, that is all...cannot not be for all always and forever. Ah, especially when ego does not feel it.
God's will is hidden on a higher plane deeper than our will and, the hook, is found within...the one place unbelieving reason refuses to consider.
It is still more spiritual growth that leads to trust in God's love, indeed, that God loves you and me, rainbows and roses, good and decent peeps and all animals. Lest we forget, God's love includes truth-denying men, mud-slinging mean girls, and untrustworthy others. Face it, who needs love more?
Ours to claim: God is love. And that is all.
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