Trust. Trust is my Now watchword...changes are taking place within us Now, always Now, whether we know it or not...which we seldom do.
The phrase when we stop holding ourselves is the sliver of gold...seemingly a throwaway line used to prop up the promise of Inherent Goodness doing for us.
Face it, when we stop holding ourselves means when we crash and burn...when we give up hope of our self-determined Heaven. After we've gotten a taste of spiritual growth, we want to go there...usually by trying to make an end-run around crash and burn by quoting all the "right" words...talking God and staying stuck in self.
It is our failure to save our self our way that invites necessary suffering into our consciousness. That is not punishment, it is trust aborning...trust in the spiritual path opened to us. That glimmer of trust is the first crack in a self-determined objective's hard shell.
Trust, unlike hope, is hard-won...hope springs eternal, but trust must've been born in Missouri for it is the Show Me of all spiritual growth. At that, I'm thinking trust is God's go-cart...it gets us where we need to be when all else is coming up short.
Trust does not come easy...if it comes easy, it is either wishful thinking or a true miracle. Only God can quiet our quest for truth. Trust that.
Thank you.
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