TEACH ME TO ADORE

Ah, you know it yourself, Lord, through having borne the anguish of it as a man: on certain days the world seems a terrifying thing: huge, blind, and brutal. . . . At any moment the vast and horrible thing may break in through the cracks—the thing which we try hard to forget is always there, separated from us by a flimsy partition: fire, pestilence, storms, earthquakes, or the unleashing of dark moral forces—these callously sweep away in one moment what we had laboriously built up and beautified with all our intelligence and all our love.

Since my human dignity, O God, forbids me to close my eyes to this . . . teach me to adore it by seeing you concealed within it. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu, (Harper Perennial Modern Classics: 2001), 112. [From the "Daily Meditation" of Fr Richard Rohr today]

There it is. The secret to a peace full life...to adore any and everything that my eyes see, my ears hear, my mind perceives by seeing God concealed within it.

Now to accept that. To discipline my own self to go to God constantly and consistently in order for him to continue to teach me to adore....

Thank you.