God Calling today is all about calm...I had been pondering some folks' m.o., i.e., the minute they hear a personal "taboo," they close the conversation. This gives an "un" message, an egoic message of being in control of the taboo. It does not cultivate calm, it cultivates rigid, righteous and right.
I'm reminded of those who pride themselves on not watching or reading the news of the day...self-chosen ignorance is still ego, there is no spiritual growth in that.
We seek calm, not indifference. To cultivate calm, we do not resist indifference, not to grow it but to desting it. God grows kindness...kind thoughts, kind heart, kind actions.
The politics of today, the very atmosphere, cannot be minimized by ignoring it and its daily results. We will be affected by an inner conflict that we do not recognize and cannot fathom...even as it leaks out all over others with our name on it. No, to ignore invites ignorance of our inner self...which is yearning to love and that is all.
Learning to welcome our reasoning mind's Oh, No! is love...God...in action, and only God's action through us can prevail.
This realization is entirely based on the Sermon's "When someone slaps us upside the head, turn the other cheek." If I win, it is an ego trip, the same goes if I "let" you win...ego trip. When both sides come out the winner, God's hand is in it.
Our lesson a-learning: Not by will but by grace.
Thank you.
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