Here's a challenge. I recently read that Gandhi studied the Sermon on the Mount every morning and every evening for forty years. Gandhi. Studied the Sermon daily for forty years.
Holy moly.
Clearly Gandhi learned well for he turned the British Empire around purely on non-violent principles and practices.
I've talked the Sermon for nearly fifty years. Certainly not daily, much less twice daily. But study? Mercy...I quote resist not evil and turn the other cheek a lot. But I still struggle to remember them first when life calls them up for me to use.
Which, who's kidding whom, is where I am right now...in the midst of another mental brouhaha. All I want to do is kvetch, carp and complain, not to mention blame and shame the real source of my woe, i.e., not me.
Clearly, my problem is I'm following my reasoning mind even while knowing that's my ego Lucy doing the dictating. All good but useless information until I move out of knowing into giving over to the fact that I do not know what to do.
I know what I want to do...win and be done with it. But what I need to do...ah, of course I even "know" that: Give over, give up, give in. Yes, but.... What about shake the dust off your feet and move on? What to do when the dust travels, too?
The paradox of the reasoning mind: It is essential to have a fit and fairly well-honed reasoning mind if we're going to live successfully in this world. However, it is going beyond that mind...that mind that we've worked so hard to get "fit and fairly well-honed"...that requires us to hold our nose and take a leap of faith.
I very well know the answer to stilling the ego's nattering what to do?, how to do it? Trust my original decision to throw in with God, then sit and wait on his Word. Now to do it.
And do not gossip and call it venting. Sheesh.
Thank you.
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