Here's my today's poser for me: What if consciousness is simply our attitude, and God is simply an attitude of gratitude?
That flashed yesterday and has stayed with me...a rarity. So I ponder it. At the moment, those are the only two things I can think of that are purely good, no downside, no exceptions, no matter what.
I'm reminded of the book, "An Interrupted Life," by a woman in a Nazi prison camp. My memory is of her being in a cell next to a man who was petrified of the oncoming...oncoming everything...and was very vocal about it. She realized, as the prison guards were nearing and he was getting more hysterical, that his problem wasn't the guards, the camp, the situation...it was fear, his fear that was making him crazy. She died in that camp, hence the book's title, but she died in a state of acceptance, calm.
I think one reason it is so hard to accept a simple thank You as a worthwhile answer is that we expect the situation, that which we're fearing, to change, as in stop. All thank You changes is us, not that which we're dreading, hating, fearing...experiencing.
It is, however, the change within that changes our perception of the problem, and we know peace...the one thing we've ever sought.
Thank You.
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