To understand spiritually, we must look beneath the obviousness of our bare-naked eyeball. The gift is hidden within us...our chore-turned-joy is seeking to find.
We were gifted with the Sermon on the Mount early on. My first read? Did not make a lick of sense. I remember reading if someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek, then if someone steals your cloak, run after them and give them your coat. What I got was angry.
I do recall when resist not evil became the one I felt was so blatantly wrong that I was forced to realize this was all about a new way to learn. That my reasoning mind was useless in understanding the message of the Sermon. Which led to my becoming willing to want to understand from a spiritual perspective.
For simplicity's sake, to me spiritual perspective is upside-down and backward from the material mind perspective. I came to this when I realized how often my perceived "worst-case" turned out to be my special blessing...that which I tried to pray away, stayed to bless me.
This allowed me to see through the layers of judgment and doubt and to discover beneath them clarity, openness, presence, and love. (Author's name not noted.)
Looking beneath our own reality, we are freed to see. Looking beneath our own reality, we are freed.
Thank you.
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