Prayer is not the avoidance of distractions, but precisely how you deal with distractions. Contemplation is not the avoidance of the problem, but a daily merging with the problem, and finding its full resolution. It is a way 'to look over (our) shoulder' for God [the brilliant insight of the anonymous author of the 14th Century book, 'The Cloud of Unknowing,' Chapter 32]. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," May 6, 2012.
If God is indeed in everything, doesn't it follow that God is in this viral infection? Wouldn't that mean this viral infection is good, too? Maybe this is just a step in my process of initiation...the initiation we are assured we must all go through in seeking God. In changing our mind...in divorcing ourselves from our own opinions...in coming to the un-need to know.
Thank you.
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