Seeing a defect in our character and finally coming to the acceptance of that defect as ours and unwanted is the first and most necessary step in any personal defect ever being removed (or transmuted as it were).
Not being qualified to do the removing ourselves, we learn to rely on a higher power...and there's the rub. That reliance is entirely incumbent upon our willingness to change our minds...to turn our thinking in a new direction.
Which sounds counterintuitive, doesn't it? We need to focus on getting rid of this that is causing us so much pain, don't we? Yet we're told the answer is to not think about it?
Continuing to mentally natter ourselves about it is the equivalent of our "Are we there yet?" of our childhood. Remember how that drove our parents nuts? Didn't get us there any quicker, but our mothers had the right answer...they learned to bring distractions for us.
And that's exactly what we must do...learn to distract ourselves with a different thought. There it is...the fine art of changing our minds.
The kick-my-butt-and-call-me-crazy part is we will wake up some fine day and know we are free. Not only that, we will see that we have been free for a long time...we just hadn't realized it.
God is always on the job. It is our faulty perception that needs upgraded...from me to Thee. That is all and every time.
Thank you.
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