Blinding flash of the obvious: The ego painful is for my benefit...to make an end-run around it is to give ego the win.
Most everthing that happens that causes us personal embarrassment or ego-pain is for our benefit, but only if we meet it, greet it and walk through it. If we cut and run, we will meet it again, when or where we know not...the certainty being, it will be more personally painful.
To "walk through it" is to find love within for the one on whom we have placed the blame for our ego pain. Heads up: That one is often our own self.
The love we find within knows no blame, knows no shame, knows gratitude only. Gratitude for another spiritual lesson in living. The ego pain is our resistance to the spiritual, the desire to cling to the security of self-deluded wants masquerading as needs.
Grinding out teeth-gritted gratitude is ego playing to win...just another ploy to stay spiritual growth.
Gratitude cannot be held for our own...it stays with us as it shares itself impersonally and perfectly.
Gratitude through grace is God's gift wrapped in thank you without thought or plot. It remains ours...ours to pass on.
Our problem is not our shadow self as much as our over-defended ego, which always sees and hates its own faults in other people, and thus avoids its own conversion. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, January 24, 2023
Thank you.
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