TO LIVE THERE

Most of us come into our reasoning mind world believing (because it's what we've been taught) that we have to stand up for ourselves...speak up...don't get pushed around! All of which is true but only up to the point where spiritual growth enters. Up to that point, we're trying to learn to work and play well with others...which too often winds up being each of us for our own self and thinking the Golden Rule should be "undo others before they undo you."

There are the blessed few who are gifted, and I believe born, with divine intervention, and they need no instructions.

The rest of us, however, specifically the lucky few who crash and burn through self will... ah, we need, seldom want but surely need. And spiritual growth is ever our need. Our own willingness is God's gold key.

It is the willingness to change our mind that will break our own sound barrier...that barrier where the only sound we hear is self, nattering in praise or pliant...about self. Our ears are opened, and we hear angels. Each of whom is whispering, "God has your back...now you can begin your journey of needing to have another's back...friend or enemy, it makes no never mind for each is God appearing."

We learn that an incoming nasty (or simply thoughtless) word or action is never personal. It concerns us not. We can look through the appearance, mentally bless it and the one who sent it, and move on. 

As long as we remain in the reasoning mind, that is an impossibility even when we are trying to do just that. It is the "trying" that tells the tale. Trying is a self-determined objective, and self does unto self. There is no God there.

We know we are on the right track, moving in the right direction, when we receive an incoming slight and neither respond in kind nor wrestle with it mentally. We kiss it as it flies by. But that's not the best...here's the pearl: When our slinger of the dart mistakes our non-response for gutless or ignorance, we respond not at all...inside or outside, but especially inside. For any inside response will show forth on the outside and never for our benefit.

There. No inner or outer response is the exact point where we know God. We know God and I are one. We know God has our back...we know God is our back. Because our reasoning mind is at peace, singing "Amazing Grace," and paying no attention...just feeling easy.

We visit there ever so often, but, oh, to live there.

Thank you.