I can't help myself...I am still amazed when I read a quote from the Bible, and it's so simple and understandable that I cannot believe that that is what the Bible actually says. It must be a paraphrase, I think. So I read my Bible (which is about the only time I read it...trying to catch somebody out), and there it is in black and white...and ancient.
For specific instance, just this morning in Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," he has written:
Moses said it poetically: This law is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, 'Who will go up to heaven and bring it down to us so that we may hear it and keep it?' Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, 'Who will cross the seas for us so that we might hear it and keep it?' No, the word is very near to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart" (Deuteronomy 30:11-14).
I'm like, who knew? Who knew that Moses, for heaven's sake, preached that God, the Law, the Word, lives within us, is in our mouth and in our heart? Let me quickly add, I'm not entirely ignorant...I studied the Old Testament...once. So I have read that, I have heard that...I just didn't believe it apparently.
And here it is...here's my gold. That's what builds my trust. Proof that God is doing for me, "intervening in my life in my behalf," all the time. All. The. Time.
I can see now, as I ponder it, that is my foundation which grew from the seed that was planted, unbeknownst to me, back then...the kernel from which my much later blinding flash of the obvious sprouted. That came in the early 70s when I was reading C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe." Aslan told the kids who had been searching for him that there was nothing for them to fear, that they had been safely in his care for he had been with them the entire time. And...my big bolt of realization: I knew God as love and that It is within us, without us always and all ways.
Thank you.
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