ON GETTING OVER ONESELF

Authentic spirituality is always on some level or in some way about letting go. * * * We become free as we let go of our three primary energy centers: our need for power and control, our need for safety and security, and our need for affection and esteem. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 7, 2015.

Letting go of our reasoning mind reality is the  ultimate freedom, according to me. And, of course, feels the wrongest, the riskiest...probably because it requires the ultimate trust in an unseeable power greater than our own reasoning mind.

All the spiritual books I read or have ever read have one common message...the reason we are born into this world is to return to God...which may take a thousand lifetimes, but that's a whole 'nother Bible verse. 

I know I am blessed because I feel blessed, and that is enough. It is not for me to explain that; in its authenticity, it is explained. My reasoning-mind explanation diminishes it. 

And I'm already in my own way, racing to get ahead of God's peace, love and joy. There. That's where my reasoning mind takes me...keeps me...in the weeds of rational, never daring to trust the seemingly irrational because it's just not rational.

Oops...there I go again. I feel like...was that Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears? Whatever. It's for sure a less than wonderful place to find myself when I was tripping along so beautifully...in my own mind.

God loves me so much.

Thank you.