If we are to speak of miracles, the most miraculous thing of all is that God uses the very thing that would normally destroy you--the tragic, the sorrowful, the painful, the unjust--to transform and enlighten you. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 5, 2016
That is truth. Underneath that truth is the reason for us to stop trying to pray our "tragic, sorrowful, painful and unjust" away. That reason being that we usually wind up declaring there is no God since he does not whisk those troubles away. As Rohr notes, in time...God's perfect time...they are transmuted for our benefit.
When some less-than-wonderful thing is facing us and it gets fixed seemingly without human hands touching it, we take that as proof that God is taking care of us. It may be, but it is just as likely to be Gertrude's fate being worked out with us getting the side bennies. Or, since it rains on the just and the unjust alike, it may just be our time in the sunshine. But really there is no happening or un-happening on earth that proves God's existence... or nonexistence.
God is. Know it and quibble no more.
It is in the quibbling that we bring our own ugly down upon us...it is in our own head, the questioning. It's like questioning whether we really need air, water, food in order to live. Yes. We do. And the same goes for God. According to me.
God is. Know it and quibble no more.
It is in the quibbling that we bring our own ugly down upon us...it is in our own head, the questioning. It's like questioning whether we really need air, water, food in order to live. Yes. We do. And the same goes for God. According to me.
Thank you.
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