A comparative thought just came to mind...that our good feelings...joy, peace, kindness, and the like...visit us for our comfort and to share. The less-than feelings, however, visit for us to place blame...they are "caused by" someone, something out there but not us...on purpose at any rate.
That we need to teach ourselves to look for joy and its kind is to be contemplated, reviewed...loved. We need no directions for wallowing in the less-than feelings. We can't seem to stop pondering those..."obsessing over" in order to avoid the blame, plain and simple.
I wonder how one disciplines oneself to look for joy.
Well, blinding flash! That is one of the first lessons we learn when we begin to seek still more spiritual growth; namely, find the sliver of gold in any less-than situation and focus on that alone.
All else fades as we let the sliver of gold, a.k.a., God, walk us through the whatevers of life.
There...I have a sense of peace...or joy!...in recalling my early spiritual growth. For sure, there is a sliver of gold in everything...find that sliver and hang on to it made a home in my head, my heart, my soul. I can live in gratitude today with those words as my platform.
God is so good to us.
Thank you.
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