Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. — Eckhart Tolle
Here's my morning ponderable: Isn't praying to God for help going in the wrong direction?
The key there is "praying for." If we have sincerely come to believe and trust that the Father knows our needs, to ask God for any self-determined objective is to remain fixed in our own mind's picture of what we need.
I'm a believer that our best prayers are free-flowing expressions of gratitude for whatever is appearing to us in the moment...be it an unexpected lottery win or an equally unexpected necessary expense.
In living the mirror-image-of-God life, if those events should occur, we know the lottery win for the less-than-wonderful news, and the major expense as for our benefit.
To look to God in gratitude for the same reason we wanted to pray for help is beginning to live our new changed mind...the grateful mind or the centered mind. This is the mind plucked of self-interest and wrapped in God goals...meaning, wrapped in care and concern for others.
While all that may be entirely so, we fool our self when (not if ) we forget that we are first a human being with free will, another gift from God. Free will, a.k.a., Me First...and there's my ego, Lucy With The Football. Learning to know neither shame nor pride but gratitude that she is alive and well in me is my daily cross and sliver of gold.
Without getting tripped up by our ego, we'd likely have no humility at all. And there it is...why I know gratitude for old Lucy.
Thank you.
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