There it is...the short form of the Serenity Prayer, the Lord's Prayer and the Hallelujah Chorus all in one.
Now to do it. To actually forget, forgive, love and laugh.
Ah, but who's kidding whom? On my own I am incapable of all but one of those...I can laugh. I know from doing it that forcing laughter can lead to genuine laughter...it's like yawns...they just follow when given a starter.
Which poses the question: What if I tried to force feeling love on an ego-determined unlovable? Actually, I have done that, too...but it was to get on the good side of, not to give love just to give love. Big difference. But it worked. I was in high school, the unlovable and I snarked at each other a lot, I found out she lived three doors from a guy I had a mad crush on...change of mind and motives, p.d.q. I quit resisting her which gave her nothing to resist...we wound up best friends.
Ah, high school...life was simpler then. I didn't analyze so much. Want it? Go for it! There wasn't a lot of searching for a higher purpose for sure.
I suspect life is just as simple now, it's the constant mental digs that confuse the issue. Unfortunate fact, trying to do God's will as a self-determined objective takes God out of the picture...kinda like trying to do loving without being loving. Say what?
Which leaves forget and forgive standing alone. This isn't the forget that comes with age, of course. This forget is of the things we'd best forget...those things we hold ourself in bondage to by resentment in all its forms.
I'm convinced the only way free of resentment is by our act of forgiveness. Forgive...get over one's self. Which cannot be done by self-will...if we bring self-will to a resentment, resentment has already won. We go to God for God...not to get God to do for us, but to give over to God. Trusting, knowing that God has already healed us and our disturbance.
Loose it and let it go.
Thank you.
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