According to Rohr this morning, "Jesus came to show us that it is our human experience that we must and can trust. *** But most of us are still shooting for the stars. We are looking at ascents and 'higher states of consciousness' and moral perfectionism, while Jesus quite simply comes 'and lives among us.'"
The rest of the story, according to me, is that those of us "still shooting for the stars," and the "higher states of consciousness" are doing so by trudging the path laid out by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon being the instructions for how he came and lived among us...therefore, how we can live peaceably among others.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but to live peaceably among others means learning how to give over...give in...resist not. It is never about getting, it is all about giving. And we cannot do that on our unaided muscle and/or mental power. We need and we have a higher power who can and will do for us when we surrender our very self to It. We resist not.
Nonresistance does not come easy, mainly because its only requirement is that we cease. Detach. Divorce ourselves from our own opinions. Trust. Let go. That is only possible as far as I have found by trusting my body, brains, bones and soul to Almighty God and letting him live my life through me for me.
And that does lift us into a higher state of consciousness while we continue to live in the material world. I'm guessing that's what being in the world but not of it means.
Thank you.
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