I've been thinking about "the bad news is we must be willing to give over to the one we are resenting" (from my yesterday's blog). What we really need to learn is that giving over is an asset...a positive...the way to win (for the dual-minded, who still believe that win/lose is all).
Giving over requires going to God first. I personally believe that giving over from our heart, not from our heads, eyebrows up, is a spiritual act. It's the basis, the starting point, for giving up fighting anything and anybody...also a spiritual act that the reasoning mind cannot do on its own. We can do it...not fight...but can we not resent it later? Anybody can keep their mouth shut with enough incentive, but the mind?...oh yeah, there's the brain's bedbug.
So, the goal is first to accept that giving over is the desired action we want to take. But taking the necessary action is...wait for it...doing nothing. It's sitting and waiting on the Lord. It's learning how to clear our mind of clutter...by thinking of rainbows and roses, moonbeams and star-shine...and all that OMG, give-me-a-break stuff that we once put down and sneered at from on high...literally.
Giving over does not have a good rep only because it's so seldom accomplished. And those who do it don't find it necessary to brag about it...because if they're bragging about it, they're not doing it. If they're doing it, it is impossible to brag about it...that's like bragging about breathing.
Giving over is not a self-determined objective that we achieve. I'm guessing it's the ultimate in detachment...we only do it by detaching from our own selves...another of-God action.
Thank You.
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