WE GOTTA GO TO GOD

Every spiritual truth we learn, we need to put into practice by living it. The overwhelming majority of us learn it just to quote it to others when we see how badly they need it, but too rarely do we live it ourselves.

I have a friend who is right and her employer is wrong. She may wind up quitting her job over it. I do not tell her that what we see is always ourselves. I do not tell her for she already knows it...she has had to remind me often enough. 

The trouble with being right, and being righteous about it, is it gives us no comfort. Yet we live our lives fearing ever being wrong...or getting caught being wrong. 

When we are married to our rightness, it covers us like a comforter, but it's a comforter of needles and pins. Our every thought is filtered through how right we are. The nail in the needles is that being right means there is somebody walking around wrong, somebody our right is resisting. And that one either doesn't have sense enough to realize his wrongness or, worse, she believes we are the wrong one.

And all the time all we have to do to find peace is to change our mind.

What? Give in? Let him win? Be a loser? 

Here's the paradox...giving in, letting her win, being a loser is the basis for peace in our hearts and minds. Then there's the reality...we cannot do any of those things through self-will. We must needs go to a power greater than our reasoning mind, and our reasoning mind cannot conjure up a power greater than itself. It can only accept that there is such a thing. Another paradox: It can only accept that through giving in, etc. 

I'm convinced it's proof of God's sense of humor that all we need do to be free of any perceived problem is to change our mind...and we cannot do that on our own. We gotta go to God. Yet. Again. Always.

Thank you.