Guilt is ego/ism's white horse.
Guilt is the egoic mind's white horse.
We know guilt when we feel guilt, and we know why we're feeling guilt. There...the fork in the road of our personal right and not right.
It might take a minute or two to remember but we are the source of all our woes. Right fork: "When wrong, promptly admit it;" not-right fork: "When wrong, think it over."
Chosing the not-right fork gives the ego a leg up. It births ego-result thinking, and the white horse is the only desired result with that.
Check it out: All of the above examples wind up with "white horse," the reason for "thinking it over." Which spiritually get us absolutely nothing. Kinda makes me think of the great anti-war song of the '60s: War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Guilt's value is comparable to gold's value...not a whit if left untouched. But who in this world has ever left guilt or gold untouched?
It is what we do with either once we have touched them...toyed with them...made them our own. And by our ownership have been made their own. Ah, there's the pig pile.
Guilt aborning and p.d.q. attended to with God as our guide is a gift of grace. Found gold turned for the benefit of others is boundless grace.
Guilt left to our egoic mind to "fix" will inevitably bring its own not-right for us to work through...or lose to, our choice.
Same goes with gold...only Soul scorching harder in our loss. Or so I am told...I have way more experience with guilt than I do with gold but I have every reason to believe it.
God's message for us is short, uncomplicated, true...and, minus a white horse, apparently hard to believe: God can and will intervene in my life in my behalf...always and all ways.
We hope so, it's easy enough to say...ah, but depending on it? There be the roots of all our spiritual growth, without which...there's God's gift and hook...without which we keep coming back until we get it right.
Thank you.
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