I have been going through what to the reasoning mind would be called "a rough patch"...I call it the rough and rutted road of still more spiritual growth. There is no super-highway to spirituality, there is just trudging the road of happy destiny.
That is one of the great gifts of spiritual growth...experiencing discomfort, dismay, anxiety. gut-bucket fear, and inwardly knowing: This is the necessary Steps that lift us to the higher plane deeper. This, too, is of God.
It helps immensely that our mentor, friends, co-walkers share our journey with us..."share our journey" is code for telling the truth to, the apparently ugly truth, without justifying or excusing our fear-feelings...plus, or especially, naming who or what we are blaming.
If our nemesis du jour is another person, and it usually is, we call them a glassbowl because they are to us in that moment.
There! That is building trust. We air it out now or it makes like Velcro and sticks with us. Out in the open, we see it more fully and trust begins to lead us into spiritual awareness.
Now we recall what we see is always ourself, and that we trust. We feel the lightness of acceptance in our head and in our heart. Acceptance transmutes into forgiveness and the nemesis has the makings of a friend...if that be God's will.
They may have appeared to us to be a glassbowl for our spiritual growth. God uses what we give him...everything happens by invitation only. Until we surrender unto acceptance, we cannot own it.
Until we accept ownerhip, with love in our thoughts and in our heart, we cannot let it go.
By love may He be gotten and holden, by thought never. -- The Cloud of Unknowing
Thank you.
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