When someone is diagnosed with Stage 4 Anything, or worse, when someone ticks us off for any reason, those of us on the spiritual path usually shoot a prayer for the person. Which, we slowly learn, is an immediate, albeit unknown, denial of God's will.
God's will is what is. Deal with it is our path to walk.
In dealing with it, we find it best not to pray for another but to pray for our thoughts about the other...whether the other is suffering from a dread disease or it's simply that s/he represents a personal resentment aborning. That's a resentment walking around in our own head, watching for an opportunity to speak.
We pray for our own thoughts because that's the only thing that we can change...and then only with the grace of God and our willingness.
It's the human condition to meet a self-perceived "unacceptable" condition and promptly pray it be made acceptable...according to our lights. The hard lesson learning: It's our human condition that needs be changed. And change begins with our thoughts, most often dictated by our feeling of unease, our sense of self arising to protect us.
Here's the story of my (to date) spiritual growth in the proverbial nutshell: Soul knowledge is more important than head knowledge; study less to learn, un-study and accept; unsayable is born in soul knowledge; sayable is valuable, precious even, as long as we are saying thank you...and that's pretty much it.
My spiritual growth is based on my sincerely trying to practice it, spiritual growth, the majority of the time...that's 51%. Still more comes with my acceptance of what is.
Thank you.
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