There are so many good and true people who are attached (and resistant) to the way they first were taught about God...Jesus being their usual whipping boy. They cannot seem to loose it and let it go. The single best instruction I ever received...and took...was to find a God of my own understanding.
I accepted that instruction without question, and I am still building the God of my own understanding. When I read or hear a Truth that transcends my reasoning mind, I try to let it prove itself out. I can't "pass it on" until I have experienced it for true in my life.
That's exactly how I came to trust a "blinding flash of the obvious." A blinding flash of the obvious is being able to find an inner authority that we can trust, a voice larger than our own--and yet it is our own voice too. We must learn from the inside out. God's voice comes from our deepest depths.
I used many different sources in building that definition...Rohr, Easwaran, Goldsmith, Erma Bombeck, F.X., Arty...a whole raft of 'em. I know I am blessed to have so many friends, known and unknown, to whom to listen and learn. So that what I pass on, I know to be true to me...I have experienced it.
Thank you.
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