Every year on July 18, when I read again my beloved "God Calling," I come to the sentence: See yourselves as those around you see you, not as you wish to be, and walk very humbly with your God.
It seems almost every year my first before-thought reaction to that directive is "No."
The deep meaning in that sentence qualifies as one of the many "most difficult" that I've had to internalize. Doesn't it just go flat-out against everything our reasoning mind has ever thought we knew to be right? Or is it just me? Lucy and me, truth to tell, who's kidding whom?
After I read my "God Calling," and noted again that sentence, I read Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation." One sentence sang to me: Faith is more how to believe than what to believe.
How to believe is our lesson to learn; i.e., suspend our analytical thinking until without thought we know and trust that God has our back...period. What to believe is then fed to us as we walk very humbly with our God.
Thank you.
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