There. That is learning to smile even on the grey days...that is what is known as an "attitude adjustment." The basic learning tool we were given as we were being lifted out of our crash and burn state was: This, too, can be loved.
Ah, but who's kidding whom? We did not learn that in "real time" as we natter about today...we only realize we learned it when we look back and see us then in comparison to us today. And know love has no boundaries, no limits, no this line cannot be crossed.
Any line fear draws, love can and does cross...and fear loves it, looking back.
It is important to recognize the two sides of awareness, one of the material mind and the other, the spiritual mind.
For instance, with "looking back,"a good example is the line from the song, "Loving Arms," Looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains and lying in your loving arms again. That is the material mind at its finest...also the side we need to detach from.
We realize and seek to live in the spiritual side: Looking back and praying thank you for the freedom of my chains....
Those are our two sides of looking back...one side leads to a life of rues, regrets and remorses (resentment!), and the other side leads to faithful trusting acceptance of My Will, when It seems not joyous (love and laughter!).
My key to an open mind, a.k.a, spiritual consciousness, is whatever thought, word or deed comes to my aid, use it but do not attach to it...that aid must grow, too. Else it becomes the God of our understanding and stultifies itself and us into the bargain.
An aid in keeping an open mind is the statement, the Father knows our needs. The words never change but its meaning, being entirely dependent on our need of the moment, changes with our need.
According to me, God's got it all worked out. Why not go with God and give the mind a rest?
Thank you.
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