Some of my neatest inspirations come from patients sharing their thoughts with me.
Here’s a recent mental eye-opener shared:
“If you run from a problem, you also run from the answer.”
That’s right! I exclaimed when I absorbed the above. If you are unwilling to face a problem, your thought stays shut to addressing that problem. You don’t seek out a solution and you won’t find a solution, even by chance. Running from a trouble is the equivalent of sticking your mind in the sand and pretending that an issue doesn’t exist.
To cure a problem, you have to face it, reverse it, undo it, and fervently work to implement the counter spiritual fact. Running away doesn’t get the job done. Facing the foe and finding a solution does!
Yep, the tough truth: “Don’t RUN from problems!”
Well, we are not Ostriches, as we know. But their bird-wisdom is interesting: they’ve figured something out:
‘Let’s not get mesmerized by the fearful pictures we sometimes see, because the fear may be the most of it. Look away…look for a bug in the sand, or something.’
Of course we have better tools than Ostriches to face down (and remove) our seeming problems. The Truth is here to set us free!
Thank you, Evan, for your articles which are so very helpful toward this. And I love your wonderful sense of humor. So healing!!
:<)))
Today, I don’t allow myself to falter a problem. But as a child, I was afraid to face bullying challengers to the extent of giving in to the bully by doing just what was asked to do. Later in life when I became a C/S, my whole attitude changed. I realized that problems had to be faced or else it would grow. And it did, and it became harder to overcome. A great example of this is when before WW11, Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of England gave into the whims of Adolph Hitler to avoid War. History showed that the war still had to be fought, but it was harder.