Just this morning, Fr. Richard Rohr writes in his Daily Meditation, "Humans come to full consciousness precisely by shadowboxing, facing their own contradictions, and making friends with their own mistakes and failings."
He quotes Julian of Norwich as saying, "Our wounds are our glory."
I'm glad he wrote that this very morning because it affirms to me what I put forth in yesterday's post; i.e., "We see our part in [our rues, regrets and remorses], and we smile at our own bad behavior....To accept our part and forgive our own self with love and laughter is the change we seek..."
Those rues, regrets and remorses that we, relying on our reasoning mind, pray God will lift, erase, delete, make go away...those, those!, are our glory.
This is so exciting to me because it is my further proof that I am on the right track, heading in the right direction. Word of warning: Never get in a debate with a militant atheist for you will only grow frustrated...searching for the winning answer. The kicker is that the militant atheist is never out there. S/He is the one who lives within, whose only job, apparently, is to question...are you sure? How do you know? Can you prove that?
That is why it is so important to acknowledge to our self...often...that nothing is original to us. Every truth we speak was first spoken...beyond knowing how long ago. Which is the unimportant truth about truth. It matters not when first it found air...it is that WE hear it now. We hear it, we know it for truth, we claim it not as ours to hold in...we are incapable of holding it in. It passes from our lips to be received by we know not whom. Those we may think need to hear it, may not, but another we've never met may. That's God's territory. Let it be.
"It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually." Now that is grace.
Thank you.
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