I am reminded this morning that it is a pitiful fact, but a fact nonetheless, that all my woes start with me...care and concern for me. All my worries that I dress up as care and concern for you, for the poor lost children of Africa or Appalachia, for the US of A...are just my divergence from still more spiritual growth. They are my own masks for self, interchangeable and useless.
It's just great knowing that...knowing that is vital to our spiritual growth or for our just walking around on this earth growth. But once we learn that, it is useless information until we are using it in our growing from there.
If we're doing it right, we will get to this point: the point of knowing that it is more personally painful to stay self-protected than it is to take the risk of feeling bare-butt naked before our world.
That is the point where we hold our nose and take a leap of faith all the while knowing there is no net...there is no safety hook, no u-bie we can make when we realize we are going to crash and burn. For there really is no one out there to protect us. There really is nothing to save us the way we think we need to be saved.
The horror and the gold is that the crash and burn is the pearl beyond price. Think about it...the Cross is not a symbol for crash and burn for nothing...if not for the Cross, there is no resurrection. If there is no crash and burn, there is no walking free in our own head!
Now to welcome that...and not by talking but by leaping.
Thank you.
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