WHEN REASON FOLLOWS GOD...HAPPINESS

It's not that everybody wants to be a winner, it's that nobody wants to be a loser.

Looking back, I am fairly certain that the hardest thing life has ever asked of me is that I change my mind. I suspect that'll prove true for most everybody when they get to the place of looking back.

I'm reminded of the old cliché, "Would you rather be right or would you rather be happy?" It is amazing how we twist logic as we try to have both. All the while, our trying is the block not only to our ego's demands, right, but to any spiritual growth, happy. Trying is the trapdoor through which self-determined objectives must fall.

Yes, but!  In one of my favorite books, it is written that we must try with a will or fall by the wayside. On first read, first few reads, that is true. However, as we grow, mature, age, we change...in particular our spiritual nature grows its wings...lets go, ego detaches...or trades for humor. 

It has taken years and years and years of spiritual study for me to get a glimmer of the light...to try with a will is our reasoning mind and the God of our understanding working together for good. 

Short version: God uses reason to reveal our need, reason takes charge, finds it is powerless, gives over to God, takes it back, gives over again, takes it back, gives over, etc., gets grateful...voila serenity is ours. We are happy. 

The rest of the story: This is not a one-shot deal. This is the rest of our life. God leading, reasoning mind following, stumbling, begging...but God leading always and all ways.

Thank you.