HUG IT AND KISS IT AND LET IT GO

Your motives and aspirations can only be understood by those who have attained the same spiritual level. -- "God Calling," May 14

It is a rude...and wonderful...awakening to read that sentence and realize s/he who I'm thinking cannot understand me because I am so spiritually advanced may be in the exact reverse...as in, s/he is the advanced one.

It is rude only to my ego Lucy, but it is wonderful in that it turns my thinking away from the opaque (me trying to change your mind) to the transparent (opening to God's changing my mind). I suspect that is so difficult because it asks that we be willing to give over, not win...lose in a word.

The discipline comes in training our thoughts to neither make the remark okay...s/he didn't mean it, I misheard...nor to imagine even snarkier toppers, personalizing thus justifying our less-than-wonderful response.

Bottom line, never fail: We train our thoughts to go to God and the things of God...for instance, we can think of lilies of the valley, puppy dogs, rainbows. They all work. In other words, it requires that we not think of the snark or the snarker at all. Loose it and let it go.

I'm guessing it is the human condition that makes it so difficult to be willing to deliberately give up an agitated, irritated, peeved mind in exchange for a mind filled with love and laughter...at peace.

There it is...the difference between self-determined goals and God's will goals is the difference between wanting to get and needing to give.

Again, loose it and let it go.

Thank you.