Blinding flash of the obvious: We have but one need...to love.
If love be our only need, we'd best learn how to do that...to realize what love really means to us, no longer for ourself, personally, but for ourselves, spiritually.
First, it means we need to change our mind...everything we ever thought about love: Hug it and kiss it and let it go.
Then we need to accept, as Dorothy Day taught, Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
That is virtually the same lesson our fellowship teaches, i.e., spiritual principles can solve all our problems...love being the spiritual principle from which all else flows.
We know that we cannot manufacture, manage, manipulate or in any way do love for self alone. That is, or we are, God's job...we can only use what God gives us to pass on to others, and we don't get to choose or name the others.
Big Uh-Oh: The others we need to pass love on to invariably appear as enemies to our material mind. It is the love we give that changes our perception...that upgrades our attitude so to speak.
In our decision to turn our self over to the care of God, we become willing to change our mind, upgrade our attitude, toward our perceived enemy...which is any person, place or thing we feel resistant toward.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but in changing our mind about a perceived enemy, we surrender. Ah, our pearl beyond price..."surrender," which once meant "you lose," becomes "acceptance," or "we win."
Everything does in deed work together for our good.
Thank you.
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