we should never submit to lashing ourselves with that which haunts our conscious…..

Life seems filled with lots of “I should’s.”

Knowing what we need to do in order to improve our lives isn’t a bad thing……it’s essential if we want to progress, but sometimes it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the “I should’s.”

The result: We don’t even take the first step forward.

What can stop us from feeling ‘stuck’?

……I find that being willing to be faithful and patient with myself and others helps me focus on doing what’s right in the present moment rather than getting buried in procrastination and inertia.

Below is the parable:

A man who is leaving home calls his household together and asks his three servants to manage his possessions while he is away. He gives one of his servants five talents, another two talents, and the third servant, one talent.

When the master returns, the servant who was given five talents reports that he has invested the money and earned another five talents, and the servant with two talents hands over an additional two. “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things,” the master says to both servants. But the third servant tells him that he was scared and hid the one talent he had been given in the ground, so he has nothing more to offer. The master reprimands him and says: “Thou wicked and slothful servant….”

The story tells me that I need to make sure that I am using what I have been given – even if it seems to me to be a small amount. Being ‘faithful over a few things’ means that I am willing to do what I can do now – even if there are many more steps required.

In order to apprehend more, we must put into practice what we already know…. If we are ‘faithful over a few things,’ we shall be made rulers over many; but if we neglect the one unused talent it will decay and be forever lost.

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………Not long ago, I was feeling quite overwhelmed by life’s typical tribulations. I kept telling myself how awful I felt……but in the midst of this misery, I heard something else…..
It was an inner voice that kept saying:
“You can stop repeating how awful you feel!”

I realized that even if I couldn’t do anything else, I would be willing to obey this one message: Stop repeating the error!!!!

Instead of becoming blind and submissive to the incipient and advanced stages of melancholy, I rose in rebellion against it.

I rebelled by refusing to dwell on the ‘symptoms’…….

That was the turning point.

After attaining the self-inspired healing I needed, I was able to get everything done following my ‘chronic episode’.

This willingness to be faithful and patient with ourselves leads to the progress and healing we yearn for.