I once feared if I stated my truth, or I pushed back, that was being self-willed, or even smart-mouthed. Because I feared that, I often sounded like that. What a surprise...what a gift!...to learn that all that I need to do is change the tone of my talk.
Being self-driven, my pushback was often defensive...my mental thank you has made all the difference. The same thing said with heart...with love...is inviting.
If the one to whom I am speaking takes offense, that is their lesson to learn, not mine to teach. Ego alert: That truth needs prodigious spiritual awareness with kindness leading the way.
It is right pitiful how easy it is to think "That's your problem" when we have stepped on another's toes without intention but also without caring.
It is very nearly a given that any hurtful thing said with a not-my-problem attitude cannot qualify as truth. The more we dress it up with spiritual bromides, the more ego's hand is in it.
Paradoxically. when we realize our misdirection and turn within to our thank you, the error becomes the benefit...we begin to see the light. Our reasoning mind is changed, and our consciousness is raised if only a tish...every tish is a milestone in spiritual growth.
We make a leap upward when we are gifted with the realization that each of our rues, regrets and remorses is a sliver of gold that cracks the hard shell of ego and lets in the light of our Father.
Thank you.
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