It is not enough to know and believe what all of our spiritual leaders teach, all of our spiritual readings set forth, as necessary as the knowing and the believing are. They are as the cracking of a window...bringing just a whiff of fresh air.
Our fruit begins to ripen when we realize, and begin to walk our realization, that we have a choice...to live by self-will or to have an earnest desire to live by God's will.
To live by self-will takes no practice...knock yourself out, see how far that gets you.
To earnestly desire to have God's will done in our lives rather than our own will done in our lives opens us to the active grace of God. All it takes for that to happen is to believe it and get out of the way.
To live by self-will takes no practice...knock yourself out, see how far that gets you.
To earnestly desire to have God's will done in our lives rather than our own will done in our lives opens us to the active grace of God. All it takes for that to happen is to believe it and get out of the way.
We can believe we're changing when we're no longer just quoting what we're learning. We find we are practicing it daily...or rather in the moment. In the moment of choice, when Sylvia steps on our toes, or Jed smarts off at our expense, we remember that we do not have to respond in kind. We can return respect for disrespect by simply not being as nasty as we want to be.
The first few times we practice that, not being as nasty as we want to be...wow and whoa! There's God. There's our proof. There's the active grace of God in our lives.
The rewards of self-will can never ever feel so good...or so right.
Thank you.
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