Per Fr Richard Rohr, "spiritual power is always hidden inside of powerlessness," and yet we often hear so-called gurus pontificate on how to "get your power back," like that's an asset.
We're going down that wrong road again if we're wanting our power back...once we've truly given our so-called, self-identified power over, we leave it there. The rest of our journey is all about leaving it there and building our trust, our faith, on the personal power and promise of God within us/without us. Your power, my power, our power is God power, i.e. love...non-resistance, acceptance, gratitude, grace.
Our humanness will not easily let go of the belief that we need to protect ourselves. The reasoning mind's "need to protect" is code for resist, fight or at least get over on. No. We rest in the assurance that God can and will intervene in our lives on our behalf. Then let It.
We begin again detaching from our own opinion about the person, the situation...begin again taking ownership of our part in it...and if we truly can find no way do we own any part of it, then we ponder why we cannot accept that. Finding no suitable-to-our-reasoning-mind answer, we turn again to God who in a blinding flash of the obvious blesses us with Its answer of peace, unknowable to the reasoning mind.
This only fails when we fail to do it...to take the necessary steps.
Thank You.
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