Numbers 11:33 · World English Bible
While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, Yahweh’s anger burned against the people, and Yahweh struck the people with a very great plague.
Getting exactly what you demanded is the fastest way to learn the demand was never about the thing. A demand made from a state of contempt gets answered on the terms of that state.
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Getting exactly what you demanded is the fastest way to learn the demand was never about the thing.
A demand made from a state of contempt gets answered on the terms of that state. The craving was a vehicle for certainty, for the familiar shape of a life already known, and keeping that vehicle required remembering slavery as abundance and reading rescue as deprivation.
That reading set the emotion, the emotion set the demand, and Yahweh's anger answers the meaning they assigned rather than the appetite they voiced. A person can be handed the exact thing he asked for and be ruined in the same second, because the request was never about the thing. Leaving a meaning like that in place costs a person every deliverance afterward, since each one arrives looking like a loss.
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What are you demanding right now that would not satisfy you even if it arrived today?
The first arrow is what happened. The second is the story you fire into yourself about it, and that one does the lasting damage.
People are disturbed not by events but by their opinions about events. Change the opinion and the event becomes survivable.
Fierce wanting costs more than it pays, and hoarding ends in loss. Knowing when to stop keeps a person whole.
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