UNEXPLAINABLE? YES, BUT TO GOD

My new maid service is a disaster to my mind. I have spent the last day worrying, fretting...rehearsing...letting them go but also getting my keys back. Getting them told off, set straight, shamed...ah, but in a spiritually sounding way so that I can get my will, my way and sound godly into the bargain. 

The trouble with spiritual growth is it works but never to the satisfaction of ego.

My morning blinding flash: I need to meet their non-service disaster with love...but a new kind of love...not my same-old-same-old currying-favor love (placate and resent), but the love the Sermon teaches of which I am a rank, half-century, beginner. 

It is exciting to realize this is precisely the same as I need to present to the one to whom my thank you card was rudely rejected. 

I feel comforted accepting this as the core of my today's initiation...to be met with disrespect yet to return love that I know so little of. I'm on the path with the three X guy...still spending too much time in trashing thoughts but speaking no disrespect to him or about him.

Then, all at the same time, several similar "unexplainables" came to me...with me extending my idea of love...or respect at any rate...and receiving disrespect in return.

This is what I opted for originally...love your enemies, do good to those who curse you. Clearly, that is of God for the reasoning mind still rebels on the reading! 

I am grateful from my toenails up that I have experienced love and laughter solely from doing this that I opted for, i.e., the Sermon.

God is so good to me. Unrealistic...unreasonable...unexplainable...you betcha! Yet I can only want more.

Thank you.