EXPERIENCE has taught us that as we
begin to come from a place of deeper understanding, from a place of connection
with a Higher Power or with the Way of Things, we may begin to notice that
there are several truths quietly at work in our lives.
First:
if we try to escape from life’s situations without allowing them to heal or to
come to completion, the need for the completion will rise again someplace else
in our lives, sometimes changing its form or appearance, but still being of the
same necessity: that’s Karma at work in our lives.
Second:
there is a thought that seems almost inconspicuous in all this, yet it is
probably one of the more important principles in recovery. It also has a Catch 22 quality to it: what we believe is what we will experience,
and healing takes place only in our minds, although it seems to manifest itself
in other places as other things outside ourselves. When we remove ourselves from a dilemma
without resolving it to the soul’s satisfaction, and thereby avoiding the
healing process contained in the resolution of that dilemma, we are not
allowing the spiritual forces to prevail.
What we are doing is simply mood-altering, and that is avoidance. So, the need for the process to take place
will follow us around like a lost puppy dog from situation to situation. The circumstances will be recreated again and
again as the soul attempts to have us resolve these deeper conflicts it
perceives as needing completion. This seems
to be The Way of Things.
Third:
when you try to fix a situation all by yourself and you choose to rely only on
yourself and your own resources, know this: You Are In Serious Trouble.
The Way of Things
is simply to address life with gratitude in our hearts. To face the tasks that
arise on the path before us. Then to ask for the guidance we need. Then to allow the healing to come to us.
Put
another way:
Round Pegs ... Square
Holes.
Larger Mallets
Simply Don’t Work.