Early on we want to talk spiritual before we own our spirituality. We learn to sit in the silence until we are called upon to talk. This "called upon" is a Now thing...we cannot think it, plan for it, study how to...even as we come to recognize that is what our spiritual preparation is about.
This I know from my own experience...we will know when to be silent, when to break silence. This I also know from experience: Just because we know doesn't mean we do...that's why "when wrong, not if wrong" is our fail-safe.
We will be wrong, and often...quite often...we will learn more from being wrong than if we had kept self-willed silent.
There...a telling difference in spiritually enlightened and highly educated...sometimes it is necessary to do it wrong to get it right. This is counterintuitive...or in plain speak, doesn't make a lick of sense...but it is exactly where still more spiritual growth awaits...not in our mental acuity, but in our Soul.
I'm convinced the hardest part in living by spiritual principles is trusting spiritual principles...having faith in their reliability. We can't see, touch, smell, taste, feel a spiritual principle...all we have is our own faith, our willingness to trust it.
Comes the dawning, that is all we have in the God of our own understanding. And there it is, the greatest gift...our inexplicable, inner knowing.
When first we come to believe in a Power greater than ourself, we realize we're going to need to build our trust in that. That first understanding is the same understanding we will take with us when we go to our Great Reward, as my beloved grandma called death.
We build our trust...but is it enough? It is never enough if we are still relying on our reasoning mind. Then the parable of the mustard seed comes to mind, and gratefully we pray our thank you.
Thank you.
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