From our first glimpse that our answers are in the realm of the spiritual, we have sought still more spiritual growth. It has not been an easy road to walk, but not seeking spiritual growth is a lot harder...we know from experience.
A word about learning: Here's me in the first grade learning the word "orange," a real puzzler for me. All by myself, sitting in my little chair, staring out the window, I worrited with "orange." Punchline: I remember when I connected the word with the color, then connected the color with the fruit, and "got" they were two different things meaning the same thing, namely, orange...I can still feel my awe from back then that I had just learned how to learn.
I may need to resurrect that very learning experience with the word "love." Impersonal, universal love. I know I've got it from my eyebrows up, but I keep feeling that something is missing in the breathing it part of my life. It may be I've got it, only it's so simple I can't believe I've got it.
Which leads to the straight-up question...then why not leap to do that? Why linger in that ego-victory land of angry hurt (right's righteous masquerade), where we hurt so justifiably and so futilely?
Which returns us to another lesson learned...basically, spiritual growth boils down to the need to change our mind. Just one change of our mind can change our life beyond our happiest dreams.
Here comes reasoning mind strutting its stuff...if we know it, why change our mind? To what? And, if we know it, how can we not do it?
Blinding flash of the obvious: If we will change our mind, we can know God disclosing himself to us as love. With laughter bopping along behind.
Thank you.
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