THE SHORTCUT: DECIDE FOR GOD

Releasing the love that is sealed up within us is the journey.

In the moment of need, of unknowing, releasing love feels tricky because our reasoning mind is ever selecting the right way to show love. Is this love or is it ego-victory? Is this love or enabling? Love or self-aggrandizement?

Here's a metaphysical speculation that came to me (at 3:00 AM, so....):

Say, we're trying to help a beloved friend in need. Our beloved lost a leg...and the loss was apparently through our own carelessness. He refuses to use a wheelchair...or crutches...or a cane even, all the while she remains beloved but with a boatload of guilt added on.

Do we carry him, going to extraordinary lengths to get him wherever he needs to go? The lost leg was after all on us.

Or do we find a place to put her to be taken care of properly...against her vehement wishes, not to mention her inability to pay? The lost leg was after all on us.

It is the end result of all our questioning that proves our awakening. It is the end result that begins with our decision...the fork in the road of still more spiritual growth...that leads to the discovery that all roads lead to God.

The Decision: Do we go with God (He goes before us to make the crooked places straight), i.e., do we trust God and carry our friend? Or do we go with self (which is ego hidden in denial), i.e., do we accept the apparent reality and rely on our best efforts to get her help?

In other words, do we rely on our untested core of love which will give God the opportunity and the glory, or do we rely on our own self which will give us the credit, knowing we will have carry-over  guilt for a time?

And there it is...the unseen trick our ego will ever play in order to feel the winner: Upfront, we know neither how long guilt for a time may last, nor how deep that guilt may claw...be assured, though we know not the day or the hour, in the end denial will go down in defeat.

I'm convinced either way spiritual growth comes out the winner. Both ways take a looong time, but going with God first is a smoother ride...we learn the art of nonresistance...and we find peace.

Going with self is denial...a long and often misery-packed trudge down to crash-and-burn...where we are woke by a Higher Power, the God of our own understanding...and we find peace.

Gratefully, we realize that all roads do lead to God.

Thank you.