“Engineer my circumstances, O Lord, according to your Will.”
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
"If you can't fix it, you got to stand it"
"Let be, let be"
In someway or another these statements all lead back to the same conclusion, that there is little we can do as humans about the big picture, we need to just trust it will be okay.
This is difficult for me to address because I really don't want anyone's feelings hurt or think that their input is being rejected by "someone who thinks he's superior." I DON'T think that I'm superior. I DON'T want your feelings to be hurt in any way. You have grouped statements that don't do the same thing. Damn this is difficult! But it's like putting an onion in ice-cream - one just wouldn't do that... So, humbly as I can possibly be, {{and with heavenly help needed!!!}}, let's sort these out. The last two of your statements fit your concluding sentence perfectly. "If you can't fix it, you got to stand it," and "Let be, let be" are best understood as Defense Mechanism's which help one to exist an in an otherwise cruel world. I've used them both myself TO SURVIVE and they WORK as far as that goes ... but there are better ways. One can truly LIVE and not merely SURVIVE.
The AA 12 Steps Prayer is great for those using the program and others who find this helpful. But it places all of the 'work' on yourself.
YOU have to courageously change what you can, with God's wisdom. It's great BUT there is a better way and that is why, I believe, that it was deemed the "
PERFECT PRAYER," and Not By Me!!! I was told this clearly in my life-changing near-death experience!
I will try to take it apart. It does require the gift of 'faith in a higher power (God)' but that's available to anyone who asks and
needed to trust what then will happen as part of God's Intimate involvement in each of our lives. "If you can't fix it" then you need to TRUST that God not only knows how, but will do it in the most ordinary (or extraordinary) ways one can think of. I
never grow tired of watching things 'randomly' happening that just fit what is needed for the particular circumstances that I find myself in. (GOD, I sound like a BetterMost PREACHER and that's not my job!!!!)
One needs to believe that God's WILL is PERFECT and I can tell you from years of hands on experience that it is. We all have free will and can do as we choose. By praying the Perfect Prayer, one relinquishes this 'right' to Someone who KNOWS exactly what we Need in a particular moment AND how to make it happen! And it always does!
The way it does may not seem at the time to be right at all. I know this from experience! BUT, retrospect always shows that a 'certain door' was closed so that 'another one' could open. In HINDSIGHT everything becomes clear. When one can accept God's Covenant with "the people of the rainbow" and their loving friends, you just
know that what is happening is best for us. I can't say this strongly enough... We Are REALLY SPECIAL to God, and we always have been.
Let me take that one step further. We are 'buds' at the end of our genealogical family trees. We get to have a LEGACY since we don't normally reproduce. (I know that there are couples adopting and mothers bringing children into their same sex relationships. They get BOTH!) Heterosexuals can have both. I told a friend who shared time with me on August 12th that Bettermost Sage, Daniel, has posted the answer here already concerning our Legacies. This world would be a whole lot worse if it wasn't for US LGBT's.
My LEGACY, as I now understand it, it to pass on "God's Covenant" with the LGBT subculture and their loving friends, along with the "Perfect Prayer." (This is so wierd because when I
died, I was told that this had already happened! DANG IT! I was so easy to just accept it as fact. It gets really hard when it seems I have to step on a friend's toes!)
Oh Well, with all the love I can now gift you with...
br. p
P.S. This has been the hardest one yet! Lighten up, Lord, PLEASE?
