This morning I wrote out my commitment to my recently upgraded ponderables. The gift of finding the gold in life's less-than situations also applies not only to finding the good in a bad situation but also in my own thinking...finding the gold in the old so to speak. Actually, it is another leg up in changing our mind.
Looking back, I remember when I began to risk standing up for myself, voicing my opinion, making myself heard...all new-to-me gifts that previously were not available to this victim of her own fear-based thinking.
Those years are long past, but I believe I have made a U-bie...going back while moving up, at all times deeper.
Finding the gold in the old lies in not resisting our regretful thinking, but welcoming it...by seeing the situation from another angle. We lift our eyes and silently seek to see it through God's eyes.
As so often happens (thank you), Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today touches on my current experience. Today's is about this transformation, and I quote: Authentic spirituality is always on the first level about us—as individuals. It always is. We want it to be about our partners, our coworkers, or our pastors. We want to use spirituality to change other people, but true spirituality always changes us.
That is the point of awareness at which my U-bie began its turn. From experience, I know the turn began long before...staying with it is birthing the transformation.
Our first glimmer of God's gold we mistakenly take for a done deal. Per Fr Richard, we must beware of willpower...many of us intellectually accept and try to execute by willpower...they have changed their minds but not their hearts. It is not a done deal, it is but a way station.
Again, looking back, we recognize the necessary slog is the pearl...along with the realization that the spiritual life is our way station on our road home.
God's Way...the street where we live.
Thank you.
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