I was reminded of once back in the day, back when I knew all there was to know about all there was to know, and I was explaining to a truly spiritual giant what to "make a decision to turn my life and my will over to the care of God" really meant.
And he said, ever so gently, "Don't tell me, dear, show me."
An all-time deep and abiding lesson that. Which, who's kidding whom?, I resented just a tish upon hearing. God loves me so much that he wiped clean my ire so that I could hold "don't tell me, show me" as my needed gold standard. Face it we've all got words, but if those words aren't our inner truth, if we haven't proved them...if we don't live them...they remain just so many words.
That's one of the gifts that began and continues my turning away from my intellect (outward), toward my intuition (inward). When the fact flashed that there are two ways to view any and all things...by our reasoning mind or by our spiritual mind...my path became less tangled. I understood what my path less traveled meant...and why and how I must needs take it.
It was during that period of time that I read: Quite as important was the discovery that spiritual principles would solve all my problems. I inner knew that this was my key, the key to opening my mind. Which led to changing my mind unto exchanging my mind. That is the nature of still more spiritual growth...it necessarily takes time to realize it as an ongoing forever journey.
There are no gold medals in life if we're doing it right...there are only deeper levels for us to climb higher. With God as our sherpa.
Thank you.
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