We so often feel we're getting nowhere when we forget once again that our decision was made to live a turned over life. Our ego is right there always and ever to use our missteps and forgetfulness to assure us that God clearly is not there, but that it is.
God is there, too, but we need to make it known...to our ego and to ourselves. Our "thank you" is sufficient according to Meister Eckhart and that has become my truth.
It was Jung who said “where you stumble and fall, there you find pure gold.” I'm guessing that it is in the stumbling, the falling, that we finally surrender. We let go of our ego's certainty that "I can do it myself" or, more likely, our niggling fear that we should be able to do it ourselves. What if it is our falls that are the grace of God...bringing us home?
This morning I asked the Lord to sit shiva for my ego...or did the Lord promise that? I don't know, but I felt comforted beyond measure. I'm even more comforted in the knowledge that sitting shiva for my ego is going to take "seventy times seven."
Thank you.
It was Jung who said “where you stumble and fall, there you find pure gold.” I'm guessing that it is in the stumbling, the falling, that we finally surrender. We let go of our ego's certainty that "I can do it myself" or, more likely, our niggling fear that we should be able to do it ourselves. What if it is our falls that are the grace of God...bringing us home?
This morning I asked the Lord to sit shiva for my ego...or did the Lord promise that? I don't know, but I felt comforted beyond measure. I'm even more comforted in the knowledge that sitting shiva for my ego is going to take "seventy times seven."
Thank you.
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