A lot of us need to feel needed, because we have ‘being needed‘, confused with ‘being Loved‘. When we chose to think ill of ourselves, then we end up in emotional need. Then we’re ‘needy’ and fit perfectly in relationships with those of us who need the needy, in order to feel needed. But once we become not ‘needy’, once we remember we are FREE to think of ourselves as we Will, then we no longer fulfill the same role in other people’s lives, as we did. Someone who needs to feel needed in order to feel loved, doesn’t feel loved, where they’re not needed.

You know what I mean about ’rebellion’ don’t you? We don’t ever realize we’re rebelling, when we’re doing it. That’s what being BLIND is all about. How could I ever experience Compassion, if I’d never had the same experience myself? Duh.

The Road to being a Lord of Mercy & Compassion is cobbled with human mistakes.

A phrase rings in my memory, from the movie “Mr. Woodcock”. The phrase is about knowing we are the ones who have to eventually eat them, whenever we make blame sandwiches. Blaming other people or the world around us for the reason and cause of why we feel the way we do, is a blame sandwich.

I don’t care whether we use a Bible or the World stage to justify why we feel the way we do, it’s all a blame sandwich, for we are placing responsibility and accountability for our creative Will, our faculty of imagination, outside of our own Self. A blame sandwich is a cop out, when it comes to being accountable for believing in ideas of love only upon condition. Especially when it comes to what we believe to be true about ourselves.

Now we’ve all made blame sandwiches. A lot of us have already caught on and not only stopped making more of them but, have begun eating the ones we already made. It isn’t about assigning Guilt. It’s about claiming Creative Power. Which we might as well do, since it’s operational anyway.

Recognizing the sandwich artist in our own kitchens, like what you’ve done, is what I’d call our very first step of Enlightenment. And not before.

We’re all coming from inner realities of lack. Lack of Love. Unconditional Love. These beliefs in conditional love have left us with feelings of emotional need. We need, we desire, we search for, anyone or that special someone, who will love & accept the parts of ourselves that we have failed to love & accept ourselves. We look for in others, what we do not find within ourselves.

I’m simply saying, this practice never worked, nor will it ever. It ranks right up there with our ‘getting something for nothing’ ideas. If we aren’t sowing it, we’re not going to reap a harvest of it, either. If I plant weed seeds, then a crop of weeds is what I’m going to harvest. There is Justice in this. A kind of Justice that can be Trusted and embraced with open arms. One that comes with Assurance.

And the minute we stop making blame sandwiches and admit to being an ass, we have it.

Our Rebellion is against correction. Next time we hear any rendition of ‘blame’, then know that what needs correction, is our act of projecting it, instead of claiming it.

If I somehow managed to CONTROL the World…cement the bottom of the ocean so there wouldn’t be any nasty crawly things to bother me as I swam…got rid of every ’poisonous’ species of plant and animal covering the whole earth…stuffed corks in all the volcanoes and super glued all the tectonic plates…if I stuffed George Bush into a straight jacket and put him in a padded cell inside a fortified compound, George Bush would still feel insecure. Because that is the way George Bush Is. And the same goes for the rest of us that are insecure as individuals and human beings, too.

“Bless us oh Lord for these thy gifts”, is the proper prayer before eating all blame sandwiches. For it is in our expression of gratitude, that we realize the World is our Deli.