Whatever God does He does for good. So say thank you. Yes, say thank you. When things go “wrong”, say thank you. When things go “right”, say thank you.
We are actors in a play. Stop complaining about the scene in which you are playing. First, the part was designed specifically for you; second, the lines are up to you. If you are playing the victim, that is your choice. If you are playing the bully, again that is your choice. You could change the way you relate with the scene you are in. The act and how it is playing out may be set, but at least your acting and the way you approach the scene is up to you. You can improvise; you do not have to always say the same lines. So no complaints about all the other actors, no complaints about the props or scenery. Have you noticed how we never complain about the lines we deliver? We say we have no choice. Not true.
Everything, no matter where we are, is God’s play. So all is sacred, from the seemingly concrete and mundane to the most sublime, if we are relating appropriately. Everything is here to teach us to return to God. It is up to us. Even the hard and miserable times are from God. We decide how are we going to play our part, what lines are we going to say, what emotion are we going to express.
God resides in war. Yes, He does. God resides in peace. Yes, He does. He resides in everything. We can choose not to fight or to fight appropriately. We can also be inappropriate and battle it out blindly. There are groups of people that are attached to fighting, and there are people that are attached to peace. It is their nature, we say. Can we change? Yes. Can we learn to be appropriate? Yes. Are we willing to change the lines we read? We should be. But we have to know they are just lines and not who we are before we can let go of them and find something else to say.
So our complaints and fights are lines that we may use regularly. Though we might not be bored with the lines, for all we know our friends are completely bored with them. We may keep those lines going and going and going, and if we have friends that enable us they will just sit there and nothing will change. Our friends may change, they may change their attitude, and that can be helpful for us. Why? Because when they are truly our friends, they can tell us to stop complaining, to shut up. Then, instead of being angry with them, we should be able to say thank you.
If we really want to change things, then we have to be able to keep our mouths shut and burn up our fight within ourselves. When we do that we are freeing ourselves, and changing the way we approach our parts in the divine play. Repeating our lines dilutes the lesson so we cannot even see or feel it anymore. The fact is that if we keep quiet a friction is created inside, grinding down the vibration that encourages the inappropriate lines. We no longer wish to express things the old way. This refraining from expression is a great opportunity for us to dissolve, free ourselves from and change our lines. Our part in the play moves so that we actually are in harmony with God.
The whole purpose of this theater is to bring us home to God. Everything—and I mean everything—can be a means to that end. But we have to be willing to approach everything—and I mean everything—in that way. Once we do that, our lines, our scenes, and our acts become more interesting, and we are more willing to play.
So what is it going to be? Kicking and screaming down the path or riding the horse in the direction it’s going? You choose. We always do choose, whether we know it or not. We choose to complain. We choose to kick and scream. We choose to go smoothly. We can choose to go to God consciously. We do have the freedom to go to God. So say thank you.
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