Sometime back I read that spiritual power is always hidden inside of powerlessness. That made a home in my head and my heart probably because till then my feeling powerless would just spin my head. My panicky mind would go running scared wailing whattodowhattodo. I felt like a runaway train on an unfinished track with certain disaster a'coming.
Pondering that thought, that spiritual power is always hidden inside powerlessness, I realized it for truth in my own life experience. It was only through complete and utter powerlessness that my reasoning mind gave up the fight and turned outside of itself. Of course, to my spiritual self that was the turn inside that led me to safety.
Again the mirror image: In my mind, I saw the turn as outward...in God's world, the turn outward leads within...to the answer unknown to the reasoning mind. The God answer within us all is only available on a higher plane deeper within us.
This is the grand paradox which to me is complete in the Prayer of Saint Francis, ending with: ....for it is in self-forgetting that we find, in forgiving that we are forgiven, in dying to self that we awaken into everlasting life.
Thank you.
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