TRUST AND LET GO...LET GO AND TRUST

Learning spiritual  truth, then doing it...now there's two different stories entirely. It being a given that we've got to know it before we can do it.

Learning spiritual  truth is when we get a blinding flash that when we're saying the 23rd Psalm, we can replace "enemies" with "ego" and be closer to our truth. "He prepares a place before me in the presence of my enemies [ego]...." Or, when praying the Lord's Prayer, "Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil [ego]...." The learning is in the realization that our ego represents us...that what we see is always ourselves...that who or what we are resisting is our gold.

I'm guessing it's so hard because it requires us to just let go and trust...or trust and let go is more like it. Trust that the one we have just come to believe in, namely, God, can and will do all the things that it is said he can and will do: Go before us to make the crooked places straight. Perform that which is given us to do. Intervene in our lives in our behalf.

Without our telling him how! Or even thinking that we need to!

When we learn that unto believing it unto living it, we can be at peace when to our reasoning mind trouble in whatever form visits our friend, our spouse, our family, our un-friend even. We can know s/he has the same God we do whether s/he knows it or not. Here's the miracle: We can let that same God do his thing for that other with or without her knowledge...with or without his consent.

The key to living a complete and fulfilled life lies in the realization that there is a mystical, transcendental Presence within us that has already provided our infinite supply unto eternity, that contains within Itself our companionship unto eternity, and that has within Itself the power of fulfillment. -- Joel Goldsmith, "A Parenthesis in Eternity" at p. 269

I know that to be true...I'm still coming to believe unto living it but I know I'm heading in the right direction.

Thank you.