I am pondering the thought that a fight averted is God's will done right. That is fairly easy to accept, but it is how we get to that "fight averted" that requires our spiritual strength.
In a tiff, an argument or a flat-out fight, it really does not matter who is right because no party to the disturbance is 100 percent either right or wrong.
In a tiff, an argument or a flat-out fight, it really does not matter who is right because no party to the disturbance is 100 percent either right or wrong.
I have in the main ceased outwardly fighting anything and anybody. I have, however, recently had to add "my thoughts" to my list of Special Prayers For. (This is an extremely short list of friends I love some of whom are in some way suffering...it includes Pope Francis because he asked.)
Averting a fight requires all of our thought, energy, and spiritual muscle to just become willing to pull our rigid, righteous and right self out, and bring God in. To focus on God or things of God is the only way I've found to detach from my self-righteous thoughts...I mentally stretch out beside a bed of lilies of the valley and inhale deeply...their scent is of God.
It is a certainty that if I focus on saying repeatedly that I am wrong, or that I may be wrong, I will end up in a heartbeat fifteen minutes later wallowing in my own thoughts of how I can set her straight or what perfectly succinct zinger I can shoot to destroy him.
By the way, I added "my thoughts" to my prayer list to remind me early in the morning what my job is this day. It is to practice loving and laughing with God with me.
Thank you.
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