Most of us say we want peace...peace of mind, specifically. There is nothing simpler to have...not to get but to have. The getting is hard because that's what determines whether we truly want to have peace of mind.
The reason why getting peace of mind is so hard is that it requires that we surrender. Not being entirely stupid, we're very well aware that surrender is code for..."You lose." Plain and simple. Never in this world or the next is ego going to welcome being a loser...for you, yes, for me, no.
That's the push-pull of living in a reasoning mind world with still more spiritual growth as our goal...our goal from the eyebrows up at any rate. Moving that goal from our head down to our heart and finally to our Soul...there's the journey. There's where we meet up with the Lord.
The reasoning mind is pretty much married to black/white. I am fascinated by the opaque-ness of black versus the transparency of white. Picture it: A white fence, pristine and gleaming. We walk up with our bucket of black paint and a paint brush...no more white fence, barely a memory of it left behind. It will take buckets and gallons and oceans of white paint to remove that black paint, and there will always be a shadow of grey left in spots.
There. To me, that white fence represents a mind filled with gratitude, of grace-born love and laughter. It takes just one fear-for-me want, one self-determined objective, to lose the gratitude, to forget love and laughter...to have our own self-perpetuating fears riding our bus free of charge.
It takes a long, long time, to throw that sucker off the bus...and there will always be that shadow of self left in spots.
So, according to me, to get peace of mind, we must make a conscious decision to trust God (and welcome being thought a loser). To have peace of mind is to live that decision...through love and laughter.
Thank you.
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