Practice contemplation and love, it rewire your brain

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Again remember I said charity,
faith, hope and charity

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are a participation in
the very life of God.

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You fall into this compassion,
this empathy as you well call it

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by learning to draw
from your source.

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You know,
John's Gospel JOHN 15 SAYS:

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"The branch cut off from
the vine is useless".

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He was saying the same thing
that Buddhism is saying:

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the individual not connected to its
source becomes more a problem.

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Jesus puts a strongly:

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"You might as well throw it
into the fire it's useless."

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So what we're doing in
contemplative prayer

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is reconnecting to our positive
source, choosing love.

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I'll be honest I had
to do it this morning.

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I'm dealing with the
death of my dog today.

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I got a nasty email early this
morning from someone on

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another issue and I could just
see my mind getting negative.

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I was already angry because I
have to put my dog to sleep and

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then everything else just
ticked me off because

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I was programmed
to be resentful.

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And I was able
by the grace of God,

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I'm not making a saint of myself
because I don't always do this

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but at a certain point I was able to
say: "that I choose love".

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I choose to spend even
in my mind, even in my own

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little hermitage a few
blocks from here,

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not to think hateful, resentful even
deservedly resentful thoughts.

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I mean this person who wrote me
was not very nice to me.

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They were you know and my ego
is offended and I had every

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good reason to take offense and
create my case why I was right

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this person was wrong.

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So I had such a good case built
and to let go of it nothing and

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I wanted to build my case
because it was a good case,

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you follow and to let go of that
and just surrender to love.

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I'm going to live in love.

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I was able by the grace of God
to move there earlier today.

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That's it, that's what we
mean by practice.

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If you don't rewire this and
now we know the physiology of

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it you know that that the
neural grooves that you

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returned to that become
practiced are the doctors

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call it myelinated, I don't
know if you're familiar with

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that word but they get
stronger and stronger.

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And one doctor told me the
neural grooves that you don't

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use like you never practice
loving an ennemy,

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actually practice it and even
in your mind sincerely

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loving an ennemy, he said those
grooves actually die off.

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So I always tell people get
converted young if you can.

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Because I'm in my seventy
fifth year and my grooves

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are well set.

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But I still have to retrain
them because we like to go back

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to the negative ones.

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I don't know why if there's
anything demonic that's it.

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This preference for the negative
this preference for the hateful,

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the fearful, the judgemental,
the oppositional.