AN AUTHENTIC INNER WORLD

You can take the measure of a human by the character of that one's friends. That's a paraphrase and I have no idea who first said it. And doesn't it sound stilted once it's been all politically corrected? I like "You can take the measure of a man by the character of his friends."

I've noticed that the newly corrected way to write about God, when God is referred to as "Him," is to stick "[sic]" after "Him." Talk about interrupting the thought in order to not be wrong by today's standards...next we'll be referring to Mother Mary as "It."

According to me, this is an excellent example of changing the outer without ever considering a change to our own inner. Just this morning, Fr. Richard Rohr wrote "...if the inner world is authentic, an individual's political, economic, and service attitudes will always change organically from the inside out."

There's the secret to peace...to a life of peace, love and joy: An inner world that is authentic.

One way to get there is a willingness to be thought wrong...more to the point, the willingness to BE wrong, knowing that God can and will use us to set our wrong right. Life is not a popularity contest. If our sole goal is and has been to know God aright, we won't have to fret about whether this is right or that is wrong...we're not suddenly going to pull a mean, down and dirty on someone...either on an innocent someone or by responding in kind to a nasty other. No. We are now living toward a fourth dimension consciousness...hitting it, falling back, moving forward, falling. That is our life today...moving inward...toward an authentic inner world.

This way is not the way to win popularity contests. But it's not a way to walk over others to get ours, either. To me and those I follow, this is the way of ego deflation in depth...by living from an authentic inner world.

Thank you.