If it is true that “God comes to us disguised as our life,”
then God was/is in my rues, regrets and remorses. It was my (ego’s) invitation
to my rrr’s which caused them to bloom, and God was with me, within me, as
love, for every thought, word and deed, and it is through that love that all is
forgiven, made whole.
Defects of character cannot be changed by the self…cannot be
removed that is…can be made worse by the self, by self-will. Fr. Richard Rohr
has written that being ”willing to creatively work with the hand that life
and sin and circumstance and God have dealt [us], that is our deepest life of
prayer and devotion.”
Today in Eknath Easwaran’s Words to Live By is
his great line about changing compulsive craving, jealousy, blind fury
(”some may be fortunate enough to have all three” [NOTE: That is not a misquote.]) and how each person must
look for that defect where urgent work, i.e., the transformation of
consciousness, must begin.
That is my how-to for working with God, but not doing
God’s work…being willing to creatively work with the hand I've been dealt. The
only way I know to do that is through the grace of gratitude…not just to say
thank You but to realize thank You for my worst defects…and yours.
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