It is a hard lesson learning but spirituality is always eventually about what we do with our pain.
That is a powerful thought that, until we realize its fullness, is just something we quote. We must needs quit quoting and start doing. As in, realize it. Take it in...ponder it...let it flow freely through our thoughts.
We learn that our pain is our gateway to heaven (the Father within). Until we realize that, we fight, deny, resist...blaming friends, family, doctors, disease...anything out there, never once looking within.
It is only by looking within, by staying our focus within, that we find there is no blame...no blame attaches. If we're blaming and shaming, we're going down that wrong road again. That is the awakening of our inner power, allowing us to accept...to welcome!...all our rues, regrets and remorses.
And that does not make a lick of reasoning mind sense...proof, yet again, that our reasoning mind will never get us free of our self. It almost seems it links up with our ego and dares God to pass.
Yet, when we turn within for spiritual growth, we find our freedom. We learn that we have two choices: We can crash and burn, or we can love and laugh. That's when we're gifted with the great paradox: If we choose crash and burn, we end up with love and laughter. Our two choices are One.
"Salvation is not sin perfectly avoided, as the ego would prefer; but in fact, salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor." -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 26, 2016
Thank you.
And that does not make a lick of reasoning mind sense...proof, yet again, that our reasoning mind will never get us free of our self. It almost seems it links up with our ego and dares God to pass.
Yet, when we turn within for spiritual growth, we find our freedom. We learn that we have two choices: We can crash and burn, or we can love and laugh. That's when we're gifted with the great paradox: If we choose crash and burn, we end up with love and laughter. Our two choices are One.
"Salvation is not sin perfectly avoided, as the ego would prefer; but in fact, salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor." -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 26, 2016
Thank you.
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