A long ago blinding flash of the obvious that continues to grow deeper in consciousness by taking us to a higher understanding is that God's will, God's way is counterintuitive. Jesus, the Buddha, my Uncle Chester, et al., each lived a counterintuitive life. The kicker is that so do we...whether we know it or not.
Until we crash and burn, hit the wall, surrender...whatever term fits our sense of complete personal failure...we will resist changing. Resistant to the realization that we nurture our desperate futile attempts to save our self by clinging to our will, our way.
Counterintuitively it is surrender to our complete personal failure that lifts us to a new plane of understanding.
Slowly, we become conscious of our life on this different plane. We are content...even happy...to be about living unselfishly...for the benefit of another...most of the time.
We discover the unsought gift of living God's will, God's way. Unsought because we knew naught of it...we only knew my will, my way. More honestly we only wanted to know my will, my way.
It takes complete surrender for us to turn away from self-determined objectives which are all about the three most important people in our life: me, myself and I. (I have no idea who first said that...probably Abraham Lincoln...but ain't it the truth!)
Living a giving life guarantees bumps, bruises, roses and rainbows...and love beyond measure. We're welcomed into God's hidey hole.
Thank you.
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