THE PROMISE LIVES: GOD FULFILLS OUR NEEDS

We don't have to make ourselves loving, we need only to remove unkindness from our speech and finally from our hearts. -- from "Patience" by Ecknath Easwarn 

Isn't that wonderful? Were you like I was on first read? As in, well, yeah, everybody knows that. Then,  second thought...so why don't I do it? Or why am I still failing?...not as often, not as ugly, but neither life nor God grades on the curve...particularly as defined by our self. 

It is a fine line we walk between setting a self-determined objective and "removing unkindness from our speech." Ponder that as we slide into "and finally from our hearts." There's the touchstone, unkindness removed from our heart. 

Truth is we can pray till our face falls off, God will not remove unkindness from a hateful heart. Why would God remove our apparent treasure (else why are we holding it so dear?) with no effort from us other than pretty words offered up. Even you and I are clear that we would (and have) gone right back to our ego's house of worship, me, to continue doing that which we just prayed to be detached from.

Our need is not to be detached from the problem...the problem is not the problem. I am. You are. We need to detach from our reliance on our egoic mind especially when it is pushing our opinions, judgments and  unkindnesses.

The harder we try to "spiritually fix" us, the harder we are pushing God and God's will away. The always answer is to align ourself with God...with God's will, God's way. 

With our thank you leading, wants are transmuted into needs, and there the promise lives: God fulfills our needs. God cannot not fulfill our needs. 

Thank you.