Monday, July 25, 2022

ON EARNING OUR PEACE OF MIND

Common sense often feels like our enemy in spiritual life. An example being resentments. Say someone does us  wrong...common sense says we must pay them back. Spiritually, however, we've learned payback is a shortcut to a resentment with its big red warning: Do Not Get A Resentment In The First Place. 

If we're paying attention, life will teach us that if someone tells a lie about us, the worst thing we can do is to push back. If it is a lie, it will die with some people believing it and others not, and neither way makes a row of pins except if we pick it up...i.e., pick it up by resisting it.

The Sermon tells us if someone slaps us upside our head, we need to turn the other cheek. 

Remember, hard ain't it hard, Lord, loving you? This is the beginning of proving that for true...and where our consciousness begins to be raised unto experiencing the spiritual gift that comes when we resist not.  

If we resist the lie, if we slap back, resistance is now our mindset and will dictate our lives as it eats at our thoughts...until we are in such pain that we pray God to forgive us and set us free. 

Our very misery is our need and ensures that the other is no longer a factor...even though our common sense natters us to keep their name on it. 

Here is common sense on our side: We do not need to make our bed with them, we just let them live free of our mental perimeters.

We are earning our prayed-for peace of mind: Someone does us wrong...let her, love him, keep on truckin'...a.k.a., resist not evil.

Thank you.

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