TO ACCEPT THE UNPRETTY SIDE OF SELF

I have become convinced, and this is from my own perspective so we won't find a lot of followers, that the most important spiritual direction ever given is: We have ceased fighting everything and everybody. (To get all the way to ceasing fighting, it helps me to think, I have ceased resisting everything and everybody.)

After accepting our first resistant thought, we shoot our thank you prayer. Then, if the Spirit moves us, we can ponder it but not pamper it. In its own sweet time, sometimes soon sometimes not so soon, it transforms itself into gratitude. 

Then, blinding flash, we realize that "not so soon" is the pearl to our reasoning mind...it gives us time to come to accept why we want to resist. 

To come to acceptance is, plainly put, to wallow in our want-to, or to "arm wrestle with God." That it is that brings us to surrender, to come to accept the unpretty side of self. For sure, if we cannot own it, it will own us.

To accept we must surrender...to surrender we must admit complete defeat...to admit complete defeat is one step closer to Heaven...or peace of mind, the pearl beyond price.

Thank you.