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The Natural Laws in Operation

We sat on the porch and considered her desire to overcome her gambling habit. She has been trying to give it up for a long time now and is discouraged about ever succeeding because she still hasn't grasped how much God will help her if she really, really means it.

I sympathize with the hold it has upon her because for many years people did not pay attention to her until she had money to gamble or winnings to be shared. After she left, I sat and pondered how easy it is to tell someone to turn it over to God and how hard that can actually be for the person with the problem. I know from experience that a problem turned over to God without reservation will be resolved. Desires which have trapped us in the past will lose their hold. He can actually do that for us.

Then it was brought to my attention that some of my problems have been brought to the Lord, such as my chocolate compulsion, but still have not been resolved or taken away--I have chocolate sitting within my vision at the moment--and I had to search within to see if some small part of me was resisting abstinence from chocolate, and I found there was still a tiny resistance to my desire to give it up. It is such a tiny resistance, I could barely find it, but it was there and it is undoubtedly standing between me and God's taking the desire away.

"Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society’s rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting “facts” about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous “spiritual” obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly." --Benjamin Hoff

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