The second thing I read this morning: "Withholding love inspires fear in another...which redounds on the withholder."
My first reading was from Fr. Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation; my second was God Calling with the quote being my own note to myself from 2014. I'm still learning the lesson of that blinding flash of the obvious from two years ago...and probably will be for the rest of my natural life.
The lesson is made clearer by the instruction to welcome uncertainty...uncertainty being a soft word for fear. For don't you think it's fear, plain old fear, that causes one to withhold love?
It may feel like a dozen different things...payback, common sense, disinterest, the list could be endless. At the core, though, if we choose to look, we will find fear curled up tight as a tick waiting to bite. ("If we choose to look" translated means "if we choose to grow spiritually...away from self toward God.")
Love of others, without reserve, is a sure-fire defeater of ego...no wonder it's so hard to give. Which explains why we need a heavy-lifter to help us do the giving. And there is none better at that than the Father within.
Thank you.
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