Rest and lean into the Spirit of God already within you rather than trying to pull an Infinite God into your finite world. This is a paraphrase from a recent Fr Richard Rohr meditation, and it came to me this morning as I was reading "God Calling." It was all about being a channel for God...to quote specifically, I cannot bless a life that does not act as a channel.
To act as a channel for God is to surrender...give up...detach. Love. Love not as an act, not as something we must learn to do. No. It is to BE. We must be love itself...and there's the free-floating joy...we already are love itself.
It is giving of that love, of our self, that brings it home to our reasoning mind and raises our consciousness.
The surest way to act on the love we are is to befriend the one who irritates our ego the most. The complainer, the gossip, the know-it-all, the one who talks for fifteen minutes without taking a breath and all fifteen minutes could be summed up in one word, "Me."
To act as a channel for God is to surrender...give up...detach. Love. Love not as an act, not as something we must learn to do. No. It is to BE. We must be love itself...and there's the free-floating joy...we already are love itself.
It is giving of that love, of our self, that brings it home to our reasoning mind and raises our consciousness.
The surest way to act on the love we are is to befriend the one who irritates our ego the most. The complainer, the gossip, the know-it-all, the one who talks for fifteen minutes without taking a breath and all fifteen minutes could be summed up in one word, "Me."
There. I just spelled out my duty roster: "Blogger, heal thyself."
Thank you.
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