Less-than-wonderful has been roiling around within me for awhile now. Usually with the generic Gertrude's name on it...John, Evelyn, Bill, Mary, et al.
Clearly, our need is to change our attitude, and our behavior will follow. We so often get it backwards. We change our behavior by currying favor and expect to feel good inside. No. Nobody I know is a fool...we know when we're being schmoozed.
We upgrade our attitude toward the other...not outside, by compliments and the like, but inside, by the Spirit.
We need to realize the God-ness of the other. If we never see them again, their memory will leave a shadow of peace behind in our head and heart.
It is written that by the thought, it is done. That I believe. I believe, too, it is by our actions that we prove it so.
My actions take longer. At one time I thought that takes as long as I choose, but I'm coming to believe that takes as long as God deems it necessary for me to to give over, give up, give in...as in, loose it and let it go.
Not until we are emptied of our own self are we filled with the Spirit.
We begin our journey detaching from one defect at a time...the deeper we go, the higher we fly; the higher we fly, the lighter our load.
Cling to nothing...fly! - advice in 1978 from David S., my beloved mentor.
Thank you.
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