There's the difference between a material and a spiritual mindset. The material is mentally based and two-leveled, positive and negative; the spiritual is singular, One.
Spiritual growth gives us another perspective. We learn that our negative feelings, our what ifs, our fears, may be are heading us in the right direction...with positive thoughts, when spiritually directed, raising us deeper.
My only prayer back in the day was for peace of mind. It was a shock when I realized that peace of mind to me at that time was equivalent to a lobotomy.
My dawning sense today is that all our dreads are gifts in waiting...with singular wants keeping us stuck in those wants. The unsecret but well-hidden code is: and this, too, is of God...silently spoken within to our world as it presents itself to us.
In short, all of our dreads are gifts in waiting...same goes for our wants transmuted. Spiritual growth is accessed by the grace of gratitude.
Which isn't to say that we will never have another worry or another happy...it is to say when, not if, we have any negative thought or feeling, i.e., fear, we p.d.q. turn to God. With no personal plan of alternative action, a tish nervously we think, and this, too, is of God. Ah, peace of mind.
God's will, God's way in God's time.
Thank you.
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