Sometimes I am not willing to do something. I resist. My mind is closed. I am not willing to even try. Judgment has sealed my mind shut. What to do? Someone said that I should then practice the willingness to be willing. I cannot make myself be willing, but I can want to be willing. My closed mind opens a little. I don’t have to do anything or commit. But I won’t close off the possibility that I might change my attitude. Then maybe I will ask questions of others, become a bit of an inquirer. I have found some surprising changes to begin with a willingness to be willing.
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Father, I appreciate the approach this inquiry takes; it cuts back on the expectations to be a certain way (to be"willing"); this conjures up the wrong or right(and perhaps activates a reactivate shame/blame from early childhood.
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