Undeserved suffering...now there's a concept that will wrestle us to the ground. I suspect that the egoic mind is of the belief that personal suffering is undeserved and thus unfair, but the suffering of another is deserved, for the other's benefit and only right.
Yet, "getting" undeserved suffering is akin to "getting" the Sermon on the Mount...and didn't we deny that outright before we could even begin to wrestle with it? Then we used all our efforts trying to do it...the self-determined objectives we were seeking to be free of, we clung to...trying to do, trying to do.
Paradox Alert! Relying on our own willpower to do the likes of turn the other cheek is a certain-sure road to resentment. Yet, we must try with a will or fall by the wayside to do just that.
It is our inner knowing that finally frees us. We cannot get there by doing acts of charity, giving alms to the needy, volunteering weekly with "getting God" as our only motivator...but each is a welcome step forward.
Trying to make sense out of God's will, God's way will keep us stuck in self...yet, try we must or live in the deadlands of self.
Our failure in trying brings us to utter surrender, ah, through undeserved suffering. There it is, the blessed catalyst that lifts us out of self into Self...God's will, God's way.
Thank you.
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