When we purchase something that
requires assembly, it generally comes with instructions. I once purchased a
teapot and inside were instructions, for a teapot! Now the instruction sheet for
that Christmas morning bicycle years ago was considerably longer, and I still
maintain wrong, both the bike and teapot instruction sheets had numbered steps,
the teapot two with the additional warning that hot water is, well, hot, the
bicycle four hundred and fifty seven, in a language somewhat related to English,
I think.
Our Spiritual consciousness requires
assembly as well; the question then is what “instruction” sheet we shall
follow. Apart from some notable historical examples directly touched by the Miraculous,
most of us build this consciousness, for good or ill, step by step by the
actions we take and the thoughts we entertain, our level of awareness and
understanding waxing and waning dependent on what we say, do, consider and act
upon, experience building upon experience, good and bad. Habits of thinking and
living do not change by simply recognizing change is needed; it requires action
and perseverance on our part. To borrow from Wayne Dyer: “Habit is habit, and
not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a
time.”
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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