‘OK I’m going in’, I think, as I get ready to take on one of our touchiest issues. Like I was some sort of marine in a dug out, putting on my helmet, getting ready to crawl out of my hole in what I already know is a foray.

Let’s look at our attachment to what others think and feel.

Why is it an issue?

Where it’s simply civil and respectful to be considerate and listen to others, that’s not what this is all about.

We’re not even doing that…being considerate and listening…that’s why such things like the young man on campus in W. Virginia, the other young men in the planes that flew into the Twin Towers and Timothy McVey, all did what they did. Because we’re not being considerate of others and listening.

Maybe if we could LISTEN, without feeling all emotionally threatened, becoming unglued at the seams, then the causes could be diffused, before desperation sets in and, extreme measures are used, just so other perspectives can be heard and considered?

But that bit of wisdom hasn’t sunken into our thick heads, yet.

We’re too busy needing to be emotionally supported…

by others

To allow any other perspective or version of reality besides the one we’ve got going around inside OUR heads, to dominate reality. We’re psychological dependents, you see. We have to psychologically be fed.  We’re all babies that don’t want to learn how to hold our own emotional bottles.

(pause)

Why, the very fact that outside agreement of others is required, tells me what ever we believe is a lie, is flimsy and insubstantial. Like a rickety bridge. Simply BECAUSE the belief does not create a solid sense of support, much less feeling experiences of ‘well balanced’.

And we’re a bunch of dummies thinking more people standing on the same rickety bridge will somehow make it less rickety. rofl   Talk about deluded…

The only person’s perspective that actually and genuinely makes any difference in our lives, is OURS. If I choose to imagine I’m the Easter Bunny and it makes ME feel good about myself and ME accepting of myself and ME happy with myself, then I’ve already got what I need, don’t I? It doesn’t much matter what other people think does it?

And that makes ALL the difference in MY World. Because once I realize this, I also realize it’s not important if any body else see things the same way. I’m Sovereign over my World. Always have been, too. Just the same as every single one of us, Is and Has Been. No one else is in charge of what rattles around inside our heads.

We all know it, too, but, don’t want to face it. Because then it’s us that needs to change, instead of other people. It’s called ‘taking back our power over reality’. If I’m minding my own store, then I’m not dependent upon what’s going on inside anyone else’s. The Law of Attraction will take over the spot ‘worry’ used to occupy.

The only cause we have to seek dominance over others, is when we’re not claiming the dominance we already have, in regards to Whom is creating the reality rattling around inside of us.

Just ponder it for a while.

It doesn’t matter how many people tell us we’re pretty, if we don’t feel pretty on the inside, no compliments will ever sink in, will ever be felt, will ever be enough, can ever get through the ‘ring past not’ we’ve already drawn inside of our own hearts.

The ONLY time we ‘need’ emotionally, is when we’re out of our EVER Loving Minds, in the way we think and feel about ourselves.

We are free of our attachments, just as soon as we realize we don’t need any. The ‘God’ inside our heart has all we’ll ever ‘need’.  Leaving us FREE to Love where, what and when,  we Will.

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.