GOD'S GARDEN WITHIN

There is something in you that is not touched by coming and going, by up and down, by for or against, by the raucous team of totally right or totally wrong. There is a part of you that is patient with both goodness and evil, exactly as God is. There is a part of you that does not rush to judgment or demand closure now. Rather, it stands vigilant and patient in the tragic gap that almost every moment offers. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditations," June 12, 2014

I believe there is a place within me unreachable by my reasoning mind. That is God's place...my personal garden where I get to go to smell the lilies of the valley, to hug the pandas, to lie down with the lambs and the lions. 

If I take a problem there, the garden disappears. It becomes my ego-cave where I go to feel rigid, righteous and right, to set "them" straight, to feel unloved, unneeded, unwanted and unappreciated.

The question is why is the ego-cave so magnetic and God's place so easily passed by? 

The answer, of course, is with our reasoning mind which tells us if we can't see it, touch it, taste it, then it is not, cannot be, real. 

We must go beyond reason to love for love is the only safety. Love is the name of God's garden within. We must get out of our head, our ego-cave, and go into God's garden.

All we need do is love our enemy, do right by those who spitefully use us, look for a leper to hug.

Thank you.