Doots wrote

I was thinking about a post Doots just made on the forum about today’s Heavenletter, #3464 Choices to Make.

Beginning with a quote from God, Doots wrote:

“Whether you actually show your anger is one thing, but storing anger within you is another. This is what you must forgo, just the way you forgo a second piece of pie.”

Thank you so much for these timely words. I was fretting today over how I still get knee-jerk reactions when inconvenienced, even after all this exposure to the wonderful Heavenletters™ and other spiritual nutrition God sends my way. While I am better in that I pretty much manage to get over it in a matter of minutes, I was beginning to despair - “I’m so far from being a serene loving person, my initial reactions are never going to change, this is not working, I should just give up.”

How wonderfully reassuring to have this Heavenletter tell me that, while I may not yet be able to avoid getting mad, what is important is that I don’t stay that way - and that what I am managing to do thus far is therefore just fine.

I could have signed my name to what Doots said!

I started thinking about the word resent. I do resent this and that.

Then I broke the word into its two syllable: re and sent. Re sent. Sent again.

It seems that I keep re-sending to myself the same messages over and over. I am irate at an offense, and yet I seem to repeatedly set myself up for it again and again. It is really myself I am upset with, and I try to blame it on another.

I remember an old comic strip called The Katzenjammer kids. They would get in some kind of trouble, and, finally, at the end, one of the kids would say to the other: “You brung it on yourself.”

Posted by Gloria on May 20th, 2010 under these topics
Personal Development, Forgiveness, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from One on May 20, 2010

“Jammer” is sorry in old Dutch. So they were the Katzen-sorry kids.

The whole process of letting go is much easier when we assign blame to a third party i.e the mind, which is really responsible for all the attachment. When looked at it like this, it’s much easier to get to the root of the matter, the cause of all the bothersome stuff. We look at the mind from outside, from a place with a much vaster view than thought can show.

Anyway, that kind of approach inevitably leads to a “Wait a minute” moment. Something like, “Wait a minute. If all of this nonsense is not me, then who am I?”

Reply from Gloria on May 22, 2010

That is interesting about “jammer” meaning sorry in old Dutch.

I wonder if our word “jam” — meaning getting into trouble — comes from jammer as well. I love the stories of words.

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