This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak [God’s] name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our sonship [and daughtership]. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," August 5, 2016
Well there it is...just one of my many pet peeves. According to me, it is the constant use of brackets to make everything gender neutral (or gender not male) that is so distracting to the message. Gender male material neither makes all females less-than nor does it give all males a leg up.
Females who buy into that are usually stuck in their ego's desire to feel the victim. There is no spiritual growth there. Actually, I believe that males have the harder job in detaching there. That belief on the face of it (the place no one cannot afford to stay) can be used to justify the male in believing that he "was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple," to quote Ann Richardson. a former governor of Texas, speaking of a fellow Texan.
I've found it to be a rewarding spiritual exercise to consciously realize Oneness in any gender specific material that I read...as in the Bible or any literature that is practically all male specific. Reading and resisting the gender is not reading, it is editing.
I read to get a deeper understanding of the message, not to critique the message. I'm hoping spelling this out will help clear my resistance to those distracting brackets. Uh-oh...blinding flash: I read to get a deeper understanding of the message, not to critique the message...don't tell me God doesn't watch over my shoulder as I type.
Thank you.
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