GOD LOVES...AIN'T THAT GOOD NEWS!

When there are several people...friends or friendly acquaintances...who are at odds with us, and we sincerely know not why...as in, What brought this on?...it is very difficult to remember our long-ago BFO, be the first to give over, which we have experienced does bring peace of mind.

I am at the I-know-not-why stage this morning. And what is wandering around loose in my brain is: WTF? I didn't say, think, do anything to get their back up...this is on them to get over.

Hard-earned experience has taught us that these are the times to turn our focus away from wants (self) toward needs (spiritual). Lilies of the valley, puppy dogs and rainbows work for me. Staying my focus there is kinda like learning to drive a car...keeping headed in the safest direction requires total focus. 

It is our ego, God's wannabe roommate in his hidey-hole, that we must be willing to get over in order to free God to do our thinking for us. Only then can we experience the out-of-self peace of giving over in order to cease fighting. 

I just lifted (and slightly reworked) that from a previous post of mine...proof yet again that what I know and what I do are often in conflict...delicately put.

Ah, but it is that conflict for which gratitude is easing in...it is that conflict pointing me toward God, assuring me that my thinking is not "best product" right now. There it is, the balm entering my mind, my Soul. 

Never trust our thinking when it is rigid, righteous and right...especially when it is reasoning-mind true. Count on it, its solution is nevernevernever "best product" of God.  

Now I get to take this out into my life...knowing, shouting my silent Hallelujah, that my reasoning mind and my spiritual mind are linked: I want God's will done in my life more than I want my will done in my life. 

God loves me so much...and all my tedious friends, too.

Thank you.