Is it life that is counterintuitive? Or is it God, that power greater than ourself that is within us? Or are they, we and the power within, one and the same...counterintuitively?
Necessary suffering, we have learned, is a path to God. Learning and believing is a lot easier when it's "lab" work...when other than the personal me is the subject matter. Comes the day after gradution...when what we've learned is what is before us to live...learning it and living it become two different things entirely.
We don't get to God by talking it, we get to God by walking it...by experiencing the trip-up bumps, hard knocks, snarks and snubs.
It is the rare and wonderful person (and we are not one) who, first out of the box, experiences those with peace, equanimity and love in their heart. Ah, but that is the goal of still more spiritual growth...whether we know it or not, that is our goal. According to me, that is the counterintuitive essence of God's will.
The path we walk is all about shucking our shields, that which guards our reasoning mind's "Me First" fixation. We no longer want to be the winner, but we're still stuck not wanting to be the loser.
There is our new goal...loose our ego-based wants and let them go. What's in it for me has become how can this benefit you...and me?
If we think we're wanting all the benefits for you and none for me, we're still caught in ego. God plays no favorites...he wants the best for you and for me...for all. There. That is a higher Power, a power greater than. Period.
We with our reasoning mind can only bow when we are graced with recognition and pray an honest, i.e., unselfed, thank you.
We must go beyond reason to love...we must go beyond the human condition to God.
Thank you.
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