As we talked about in last week’s email, people can often only be grateful when life looks the way they want it to.
When it doesn’t? The fist comes out to be shaken at an uncaring supreme being: “Why? Why is this happening to me??” … and there’s never an answer.
We talk about trust, and how our trust in God has failed, because God has failed to give us what we want.
Trust is a funny thing. We might say, "I trust that it will all work out for the best" ... but what best are you really referring to?
Do you want the ego’s best, or the Best?
So often, what you want is often not what you need.
Sometimes things happen to us “just” so we can learn the greatest lesson of all: Unconditional acceptance, which is Acceptance with a Capital A and a full stop – not just acceptance when reality is looking similar to our plan.
That there is ultimately the end of peace: When we resist what is.
The uncaring supreme being you’re blaming? She actually is trying to bring you what you need. It’s just your idea of what that might be is often so fixed and looks so different.
Just like a dog chained to a cart, you can be dragged or you can trot alongside.
Shaking your fist at the sky is looking in the wrong place for answers because you yourself are choosing to be dragged in the mud – and you’re accusing God of pushing your face into it.
Get up, get up! Get on your feet. You choose to be dragged through the mud, resisting what is, resisting reality.
The cause of your suffering is not external to you. It lies in the very lack of acceptance behind the question, “Why is this happening to me?”.
All your answers are within.
If you dare look.