To heal our relationships, we have to move closer to people we do not like, learn to work with them without friction. - Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By," May 1
I love that sentence because its meanings have deepened for me. Today, its most important words to me are, learn to work with them without friction. At first, the only words I read were, we have to move closer to people we do not like.
To move closer to people we do not like, or are just in mental disagreement with, I find we best start with our own thoughts...to move closer before we have made peace in our own head and heart is still a self-determined objective with little or no spiritual guidance.
Same goes with trying to make someone who is angry with me not angry with me. That is akin to trying to make a person love me...it's all about me, and it doesn't work. A self-determined objective is for self, not for the other.
More and more I'm understanding that spiritual movement upward to a place deeper begins in silence. I am being led to believe that more unspoken and unrealized prayers are answered for our benefit than we can imagine. It is in the Silence, when we are asking for nothing, feeling the grace of gratitude, that all things begin their work together for our good.
I have a wonderful example: Since Ruckus went back to Heaven on April 18th, I have felt like I'm living in a deflated balloon. There is no energy in my condo...a dead zone plain and simple. Out of nowhere, I now have a May-full of people coming to visit...one for a weekend, another for three days, another for a day and a half, another for a day, two for lunch and shopping. I would never have thought to fill my home with people because I would never have thought I wanted that!
And there it is...it is God alone that knows my needs. Apparently I don't even know my wants because I am happy beyond imagining to have so many friends come visit...or to have so many friends period.
Came to believe that God could and would intervene in our lives on our half.
Thank you.
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