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The Art of Intolerance (Originally Published 3/31/2021)


I had a mentor who taught me about tolerance.  Or should I say intolerance.  Karen read me the riot act one day (probably the only real way to get my attention) by responding with disgust to a statement about a friend I made.  I said, “I tolerate her bad behavior because I love her.”  Sheesh!  What a can of worms that statement opened me up to.

Karen pointed out to me that the very trait I was “tolerating” in my friend was there to teach me a lesson.  By merely tolerating it, I was judging her behavior and worse yet, setting myself up to have an air of superiority in my generous “tolerance” of my friend’s behavior.  Both judging and feelings of superiority are definitely anti-light experiences.

 

Karen’s advice still rings in my head when the “T” word pops up in my vocabulary.  If someone’s bad behavior creates a call-to-arms in my mind, I am immediately reminded that Soul is urging (not so gently any more at my age) me to look inside my own thoughts and actions.  Truth is, if I see something I need to tolerate, it’s only a RED ALERT Soul message that it’s time to do a little deep fishing into my own psyche to find a part of my own thinking or actions that got aggravated by that person I’m judging to tolerate.  Here is a true-life example of what I mean:

 

I am surrounded by Libras.  I do not personally know a Libra who isn’t a drama queen.  By that, I mean every situation they just experienced has seven different back stories before they get to the original point of the story.  They should all be writers as they include (in my opinion, of course) way too many unnecessary details for my taste—drama.  Their drama takes time away from other things I want to do.  Aha!  The magic word—the one thing Soul is driving at me to learn—I shall not want.

 

For a long time, I tolerated all my friends’ drama by tuning it out or avoiding conversations with them.  Karen’s words, however, caused me to wonder.  Was it selfishness on my part, for my time, my need to merely tolerate the drama?  Truth is, their stories are always rich and colorful.  I need to slow down and stop myself—be in the moment so to speak—when in the presence of my Libra friends and co-workers.  Embrace their drama.  I need to remember that God’s timing is always perfect and that my wants, my will, unless spiritually based, are a waste of time anyway.

 

I want more intimacy in my life.  What better way to have intimacy than to take time and listen, really listen to someone else —drama and all.

 

To say in one sentence what it took me six paragraphs above to say is:  annoyances in the physical realm are not annoyances in the spiritual realm.

 

Think of someone or something that is currently annoying you; someone or something that you are tolerating.  Communicate with Soul to find the spiritual development possibility that lies in the annoyance.  Then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  Soul will guide the way to do something about it when you design a well-thought-out intention.

 

Affirmation:  I am open to spiritual lessons designed specifically for me.

 

P.S.  For a few days after I write a blog, I have a tendency to talk with anyone who will listen about it.  The very day that I wrote this blog I was getting a massage for a neck injury I recently acquired.  Lovely Donna happens to have black skin.  She informed me that she remembers that word “tolerance” being applied to her race back in the ‘60’s.  I literally could not breathe for a minute as I thought about the implications of “to tolerate” black people.

 

What idiots the human race can be!


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