The storehouses of God are full to overflowing but you must see this in your mind. Be sure of this before you can realize it in material form.
When we open our mind's eye to the "storehouses of God" as being our very own selves, we begin to understand our endless supply of kindness, of patience, of love that we were born with, have within us now, can release at anytime simply by using it.
It takes some prior proper planning to get started using any of God's gifts in the material world. For instance, we can picture a friend who has been snippy toward us...and our response being the opposite of snippy. How can we see our personal self doing that? Not Jesus or Mother Mary or Pope Francis, but us...me, personally. Get the picture to where it is realistic to us and our knowledge of our own self. Then the next time it happens (and we know very good and well there will be a next time), we'll have a better chance of being kinder than we would have been...that's what we get to build on. There are very few one-shot-to-perfect in spiritual growth.
There is a spiritual principle behind this, and it is found in the Sermon on the Mount: If somebody slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek. I doubt anyone gets there from a standing still place...it requires practice. And the practice starts with choosing to let go and let God...in other words, become willing to detach from our own ego.
Once when I was pondering how to become willing to let go, to detach, the image came of my grandpa wringing the neck of a chicken for grandma to prepare for Sunday dinner. And I realized that is the mechanics of detaching from my ego. The picture seems painful (especially for the chicken) but I remember that it happened, it was over, in a flash. It is the mental gyrations, the thinking, puzzling, trying to find an easier, softer way (in short, trying to placate the ego and get God, too) that causes us the pain.
We must go beyond reason to love.
Thank you.
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