EDUCATED OR INTUITED...EITHER WORKS

As I often note, I love when a reflection of mine is validated by one (or more) of my daily readings. I feel a certain validation when a spiritually educated person says what I've only  intuited.

I received that validation today. Here's a note I wrote in my "God Calling" on this date in 2013: It is as through a mirror I now live...his/her/their interpretation of my life is to be embraced, not resisted. For their interpretation is theirs and says naught of me.

Then I read Cynthia Bourgeault's "Daily Meditation" for today on the Beatitude, Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -- Matthew 5:10.

It is in her Gospel of Thomas comparison that I found my connection: "Jesus is not talking about martyrdom here, but about freedom. The Gospel of Thomas records this Beatitude with a slight but telling variation that captures the very essence of Jesus’ meaning here and in fact, throughout all the Beatitudes: Blessed are you in the midst of persecution who, when they hate and pursue you even to the core of your being, cannot find 'you' anywhere."

Here's the good and the bad of that: I get my feeling of validation from reading a spiritually educated person's take, but I still feel a tish of impatience...like, all that says is "Don't take it personally...whatever the incoming is that feels less than wonderful, don't take it personally." And I say that to me a lot...or occasionally, depending on the day. Now I can pretend I'm thinking of a Beatitude when I say it.

God loves me so much...you, too!

Thank you.