A DIFFERENT FRAME OF REFERENCE

[The following is a reprint of my blog of December 30, 2009.]

I was chatting with a friend recently about a difference we have…we’ve been friends for over 30 years, and we’ve always viewed the matter from two difference angles. I clearly remember back in the day pondering how to explain the matter to her so she’d recognize her error…and, of course, see that I am right.

I consider it pure grace that I never found it necessary to  go down that particular road. So we were really discussing it for the first time…discussing the how and the why of our difference rather than making the difference the biggie.

And my friend says, “We just have a different frame of reference, that’s all.”

I knew she was right, and I saw that it was important for me to incorporate those words in my conscious thinking…for there is the key to disarming my attack mind.

I was watching TV that night and one of the talking turkeys that I so disagree with came on…I usually grab the remote and switch channels when these people come into my world, but my attack mind continues to set them straight hours after the fact…and that’s when I’ve just caught a couple of their words because I really do change channels asap.

I grabbed the remote this time, too, but as I’m changing channels, I say right out loud, ”We have a different frame of reference.”  And I didn’t think about it again! And I did not think about it again. I am still basking in the peace of it.

My job now is to cultivate that in my conscious thinking…practice, practice, practice. I have learned these really important mini-breakthroughs require a lot of practice. Each seems so important at the time that I just know I’ll never forget it, so I forget about it! And it’s gone. I compare it to dreams…I awaken from a dream that I know is so important that’s there is no need to really wake up and write it down because there is  no way I’ll forget this one…and the next morning I can’t even remember what it referred to or who was even in it.

Discipline. Practice and discipline…I wish they had a better rep in my thinking. Like, why can’t I think of practice and discipline like I think of peppermint ice cream or Hawaii. Sigh.

Thank You.