When one shares a tale of another’s actions and their opinion of such with you, does it automatically become your own opinion? This is a common way of building separation. Do remember that all stories must go through the filter of the one telling it. Have you not experienced how passed-down stories become distorted? Until you have the opportunity to experience for yourself and feel in your own heart another’s motives and very being, do your best to remain without an opinion.
You are so very loved.
That our opinions are acutely noticed by us, when our opinion differs greatly from that which seems to be occurring or has occurred, we then grab on to an image of righteousness, and decide it is our opinion that is the righteous one. That could be arrogance though that is not necessarily an arrogance as to intent… it sure does remain as the precipice on which stand, with only one direction in which to travel… and that is – back up!
Realize you could only step so far forward from which you then had to back up and reconsider the stance on which you had an opinion That precipice was certainly there, yet of what value was it in your rather bleak situation.? Yet what did you do but hang on to the opinionated image when backed up from being on that precipice? Did you look to another to hear if they too had stood there? Why? And if they did, so what? Did either or any of you discuss realistic possibilities that did (or not) include your opinions? Sometimes we don’t discuss enough and other times we just talk too much. We attach the image of strength to things that have no strength, reality to things that are not real, love to things that are not lovable, nuances to things that weren’t nuanced… all so that our opinions might hold value, even when they hold no value by themselves. Now we do have the arrogance that claims we can make REAL, that which is not REAL.
How do we give Caesar only that which is Caesar’s? Not until we know that, will we know how to give of our understandings to God, that which is God’s.
This is truly a huge human issue and is one we are learning to overcome step by step. God knows this, and wants us to remember, that through all this, heaven has our backs.