OUR INCURABLE WOUND IS OUR GIFT

A Swiss theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905-1988), said toward the end of his life: “All great thought springs from a conflict between two eventual insights: 1) The wound which we find at the heart of everything is finally incurable. 2) Yet we are necessarily and still driven to try.” (From Fr. Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations.)

I find that thought, both parts, very comforting. The possibility that there is a wound at the heart of everything that is incurable...ergo, it'll do our thinking for us whenever it wants to...gives me immeasurable peace. It explains so much...the answer finally to the eternal question, "What is wrong with me?"

The gold is in "we are necessarily driven to try" to find a cure. This leads to the discovery that the only reasonable place to seek is God, the indwelling higher power. That is the first and final step in breaking free from our reliance on our own brain, the home of our ego. Plus, we find that our seeking must be on a daily basis...because our ego-victory wants are alive and nattering 24/7, so must our search be.

These "two eventual insights" open us to the realization that we are governed by one of two things: By the activity of God in our consciousness or by the activity of our ego-victory wants.

Choose you this day....

Thank you.