In his Daily Meditation of this past October 22nd, Fr. Richard Rohr wrote that we must come to "an awareness that I am the enemy and the enemy is me. I cannot destroy the other without destroying myself. I must embrace my enemy just as I welcome my own shadow."
I dreamed last night that I came face-to-face with a person unknown to me yet I realized her as an alienated friend who clearly wanted to set me straight...again. Among other things, I knew we had not seen each other in over 30 years, yet she had stored deep within her the original peeve, plus 30 years of raging self-pity with my name on it.
When I awoke, I felt the alienated friend's presence, and I said, "You're just going to have to let me off the hook. That's your only road to freedom." With which I recognized my alienated friend as a stand-in for my undeserved suffering, my nemesis as it were.
I felt my heart and soul soar with the certainty that God can and will...always and all ways...find a way to speak my truth to me.
Thank you.
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