When we are met with a perceived block...most often an ego-threatening snark, snub or slight...our first thought must be welcoming because our second thought will invariably follow suit. Ah, there's the conception of a resentment with its inside track leading the third, fourth, et al., thoughts...oftimes even when we consciously turn our thoughts toward God or other spiritual matters. Ego is ever-present, looking good and offering money, honey.
Our lesson to learn, and as an example, say we perceive that Gertrude has slung mud at us. We welcome that with a thank you. Ego will resist but its resistance now will be aimed at the thank you, and we have diverted the course of our nascent resentment. When we concentrate on agreeing with our adversary, the God of our understanding is the arbiter, and one with God is a majority.
The big Ah-Ha: Ours is not to teach the mud-slinger a lesson, the mud-slinger is to teach us a lesson. His snark is our gold...our road out of self. When we choose blame and shame, we choose ego, and we must needs do it all over again...until we get it right.
Basically, don't complain, don't explain, simply agree with your adversary quickly, our self-proof that we have ceased fighting anybody and anything. If practiced faithfully, that for sure would still all arguments which, face it, are the basis of all wars.
Requiring ourself to go to God before we open our mouth, cannot be a bad thing, or better, before our first thought. There it is. The basic how-to training for going to God for God and that is all...as our mind is telling our eyelids to open, we shoot a thank you, and that welcoming leads us up, out and already in a state of grinning gratitude.
There. We are heading in the right direction. For right Now.
Thank you.
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