The Angry Email from God
Angry and petulant is the best way I can describe it. There it sits in my inbox. How am I going to deal with it?
Of course I could react now, but I can just see the repercussions. Hopeless and completely unnecessary.
So: Can I see the writer as part of God? How can I appreciate that he is here to give me a teaching I obviously need (because here it is, black on white on my screen)?
I go slow. My gut churns a little and I pay gentle attention to that. Soon it calms down. I craft a careful reply, being polite and expressing my truth as clearly as possible.
I turn his accusation around and look if he could be true. I see it and I tell him in ways he can understand.
When I’m done I feel good. I am grateful to the writer because he gave me an opportunity to grow beyond that old reactiveness I know so well.
He is teaching me to be peaceful while standing up for my truth.
I look forward to as many other teachers like that I might need until there is no longer even a slight urge to react. He is teaching me the reality of love.
Obviously it was God writing to me.
Amazing!
Tags: appreciation, Awakening, gratitude, Love, self-love, spiritual path, unconditional love