To clarify, take the story of original sin...God gave Adam and Eve free will, then God punished them and all who came from them (that's you and me) for all eternity for the one reason...they used their free will.
Does that make a lick of sense? There is no free will if upon using it, we get punished forever and three days after that.
Not to mention being taught that God is Love and that is all...and that, too, I believe. Whatever comes to us, no matter how scarifying it looks on approach, know that this, too, is of God. Then, instead of sitting and shaking and continuing to watch the dreaded approach, we focus on opening our minds to how we can not resist this.
We keep it simple...we start with our thank you prayer, and let God explain. We remember spiritual words that have come to our aid in the past...Be not afraid; it is I calms me. And, who's kidding whom. a calm mind is of God, is love enfolding us.
And when, not if, the approaching Dread falls in our lap...and it may well for that's the material world we are born into...we fret not with why me, oh Lord? My interpretation of God's will as mirror image to our eyes is my go-to, as in, we see awful, but God sees good. I suspect I built that from the story of Joseph who was sold into slavery by his brothers. He hit the Big Time with the Pharaoh, then when the bros drove their train off the track, they ran to Joseph apologizing for doing him wrong and begging to be saved...to which he said, Pish tosh...you meant it for ill, but God meant it for good.
There it is...the key to never needing to shame or blame again: You meant it for ill, but God meant it for good.
That's also why spiritual thinking works better than the reasoning mind for solving personal problems. All we need do to change our life is upgrade our attitude about it. We remind our self that good can and will be born out of bad when (not if) we upgrade our attitude. Upgrade your attitude, you upgrade your problem.
This, then, is the new spiritual reality. Our walking-around world is not necessarily changed, and we're okay with that. Through an upgrade in our own attitude, we know this is not ours, it is God's, and we're good to go. There...we have just broken the code for how to change our mind.
Here we are back to free will. If we so choose, we can mentally sit in our own stuff, wondering why, blaming and shaming our self, him, her, our parents, et al., or we can look inward to our Power, there just waiting to be used, and ask for an upgrade in our attitude. Or we can just say thank you.
God gave us free will and no reason to fear using it. Every mistake we make is just another call for him to come to our aid...and we never call in vain.
Thank you.
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