Looking back, it seems to me that all the spiritual books, articles, tracts and the like that have spoken to me have one theme...to surrender our momentary wants in exchange for the forever peace that passes understanding.
Face it, to the egoic mind "the peace that passes understanding" has no high dollar value...no dollar value at all!..cannot be bartered or paraded for all the world to admire or warm us on a cold night. Whoa! Isn't that asking us to lose our wants to get what may be just another want? Or possibly a figment of our imagination?
Then one fine day in a flash or a crash...after years of slowly learning...we realize that to honor, to respect, the other, whomever they may be, opens us to the love of our Father within.
The love which is of God is born within us, is ever present, silent and seemingly stationary. Then comes the change, usually via our own crash-and-burn, and we accept the loss of our want, the self-determined objective. Slowly we are peaced through that loss, winning love and laughter, God's will, God's way.
Our life is changed...we can only realize how completely it is changed when we look back over the years. We recognize our original rues, regrets and remorses, that the humility of love and laughter has transformed them, and we begin to grow our wings, self-respect.
We know joy complete when we recognize resist not evil as the source of our giving over, giving up, giving in to the person, act or memory that we prayed God would kill. God's always better idea was to replace our resistance with respect.
We now respect that hated person, act or memory for without that one we would never have sought God so diligently, urgently, unceasingly...to be found by him so readily.
To surrender our momentary wants in exchange for the forever peace that passes understanding is to resist not evil for there is God.
Thank you.
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