All things will be made clear...just this morning Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" is titled You Become the God You Worship. I was immediately taken back some thirty years to the time when my mentor said, a lot, "I am the image of the God I adore."
I could not grasp that concept, and we discussed it...repeatedly.
I finally made my breakthrough when I worked for a man who lived totally in his intellect...totally and proudly. It was clear that his towering intellect was his god, and he had become a towering intellect...which is a very limited and limiting god and draws few people in. He was a not happy man.
I have since seen the same thing play out in people's fears...fear of financial insecurity is primary. We often hear stories of someone who has a comfortable income but lives like a miser for fear of running out of money. Money is his god and can never bring peace of mind...it takes away peace of mind is what it does.
Anything that our mind can conceive of that we make our god will fail us...there's an old affirmation I still hear sometimes: If my mind can conceive it, I can achieve it. Which I don't even doubt...the trouble is, achieving and maintaining are two different things. Maintaining requires that we live in the reasoning mind, a wondrous thing it is true, but living there does not bring lasting peace, nor joy, nor love.
It is in surrendering...surrendering our self-determined objectives, our wants, our perceived needs...to an unseeable, unknowable, untouchable power of pure good that we first glimpse, experience really, the real power, the Higher Power, God. Whose only job is to flow forth from within us as love for any and all...every person, place, thing it meets. Like a tsunami, only good.
All we need do in order to surrender is hold our nose and take a leap of faith. We will be caught. We will be transformed.
Thank you.
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