It seems my life's results are driving my thinking, leading my insights, lately.
The result of the action we took or didn't take based on our smallest fear, a glimmering hope or even our "impossible dream" has too often determined the direction of our life. Only in looking back...willingly...can we realize the part we personally played in determining the course of our life.
Hard lesson learning...there is no standing still. It has been said, and I do believe, if we are not moving forward, we are moving backward. It is our worried mind that snookers us into believing that in our stuckness, we're taking action...all we're taking is time, precious time.
Stuck keeps us in the old rocking chair syndrome: Our egoic mind darting back and forth, back and forth, invites us to believe we're really moving on up the line.
Self-examination and sharing our deepest finds with a trusted ally are essential to our breaking free. However, it is the action we take after the digging then sharing that puts us on a new level of spiritual growth...away from self into God for others.
I know this as giving up blame and shame...ah, our unloved comfort zone and our mental go-to. We finally accept the fact that a life based on a lovely fantasy or a righteous "wronged" is a life in need of and longing for God, "by any name we choose to call God," as Rohr so on point specifies.
Enter forgiveness as a wanted asset, as a positive to aim for. We can, as our beloved Sandy B said and did, "Make a decision to be a forgiving person."
WOW!
Here's me...once thinking of forgiveness as a sanctimonious joy-killer, now living in the definition of an exchanged mind.
God loves us sooo much.
Thank you.
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