WE ARE NOT IN THE LEAST ALONE

I wrote the following first thing this morning: My spiritual growth is to go forward toward my seeming betrayers, not correcting them but correcting me, through the Father within. LET My Spirit run me.  [NOTE: Let it be known, my "seeming betrayers" are those who disagree with me...not to put too fine a point on it.]

It was after I wrote that that I read both of the following squibs:

From Easwaran's "Words to Live By" today: We need people to grow, and all our problems with them, properly seen, are opportunities for growth.

From Rohr's "Daily Meditation" today:  Even the Gospels seem to jump over Jesus' thirty years of uneventfulness, paralleling midlife for most of us, during which all the seeds are planted for a later sprouting. Jesus increasingly encounters many human trials and hostility, just as most human lives do if lived with integrity. He thus identifies with humanity at its lowest point, in the place of rejection, betrayal, immense suffering, and even crucifixion. That's the bottom, the place of powerlessness, the place of emptiness as the separate ego allows itself to die, the place where transformation usually happens. Here God says to all of humanity, through Jesus: 'I'm with you. I understand. You are not in the least alone.' And this lowest point is in fact the beginning of the highest point, as a new symbiotic relationship begins between the soul and God.

"And this lowest point is in fact the beginning of the highest point, as a new symbiotic relationship begins between the soul and God." There. That's the message I knew even as I wrote my note to me this morning...it's the rest of the story, the why I'm to go forward toward my seeming betrayers, not correcting them but correcting me.

Now my real enlightenment time begins...the hard work of detaching from my ego's need for victory. To let my betrayers be right...not so much without as within. Not by my words, but by my attitude. By my honest desire to see us as seeking the same for ourselves and for each other...still more spiritual growth pure and simple. 

Here's my great comfort:  "Jesus increasingly encounters many human trials and hostility, just as most human lives do if lived with integrity." And here, also, is where I go to God for God and that is all...for God is with me and does understand...I am not in the least alone.

Thank you.