ON CHANCING A PEEK WITHIN

"If there is nothing in your life to cry about, if there is nothing in your life to complain about, then you must be out of touch." See why I love Fr. Richard Rohr? I love the truth of that statement of his. Yet I try not to go to it too often...else it becomes my great justifier to stay stuck and bitching about it.

It's kinda like "the human condition." How often we do less than wonderful and slide by on "that's the human condition." It may well be, but the human condition does not preclude striving for a higher state of consciousness than that of the material world.

The nonacceptance of ourselves, of our basic me-ness, not pretty but not butt-ugly either, I'm convinced, is the hook that keeps us stuck...feeling separate and apart. Or, as Rohr also says, it is our denying our pain and avoiding the necessary falling that keeps us from reaching our own spiritual depths—and therefore from reaching our own spiritual heights.

What a revelation when we realize that the only separate and apart there is is our feeling of separation from God. We re-establish our connection with God, with our Source within...voila, all's right with our world.

It's interesting how long it takes before that is the last place we choose to look...how much we suffer the "pangs of anxious apartness" before we chance a peek within to find our connection. Then do it again and yet again...until it is (nearly) the first place we look.

I'm guessing that's the human condition.

Thank you.