2011 - A year of giving up - "On the High Road of Surrender" - Day 2 - Hearing & Doing

Probably one of the hardest struggles for me each day is determining whether or not what I am motivated to do is my will or not. I thought today about when I finally realized others will always let me down, but still I love them. And letting my child know I expect him to make mistakes enables him to be so much more comfortable trying, and helps him to learn; how so do I being human also, expect so much more of myself. At what point did I think that somehow it was good to burden myself with all of this pressure of making every right decision and never messing up, if it is not good for those I love, and not expected from He who loves me. Maybe because messing up can cause so much grief I vow - no way will I let that happen to me again. But if sometimes I still do, what does that tell me. If I am convinced that learning for me is fostered in the same environment in which I let others learn and I am given to learn, how smooth that learning could be if I just gave myself to it. What could be the one thing I could do differently.

taken from " On the High Road to Surrender"


"Listen intently for My voice, for you cannot obey Me, unless you first HEAR. However, your ability to hear, is sharpened by your desire to be obedient. The functioning of the ear and of the hand are inseparable in the Spirit. They always operate in conjunction with each other. He who HEARS, must be also he who DOES what he has heard. Until then he will not be given another word. I am not hiding myself from the man who does not hear Me... He has cut himself off by self-will and disobedience."