Gracious behavior is more important than right belief. -- Fr Richard Rohr
I am convinced gracious behavior is the righteous healer of discord. It is the seed from which love grows, the love that is the cessation of hate.
I have, I must say, experienced gracious behavior not making a pup's piddle to a person determined to act from a self-determined resentment. That one is akin to a runaway train...after we get out of the way and praise God it is not us, we search for the good in that.
I'm convinced the sliver of gold in being that one's target is in our realization that this is the raw material we receive in order to experience how well we walk what we talk. Most especially, how well do we not react in kind in our own mind later as we think about it.
We can behave graciously, walk away with clean hands, and awake at 3:00 AM cursing, plotting and planning how we coulda, woulda, shoulda...and will next time chew her a new one. That, even when we are satisfied with our actions and, from our eyebrows up, know we would not behave differently if the occasion arose.
It is the Father within which transmutes our resistance to those ego-victory thoughts to the acceptance of them as ever with us. Our acceptance lifts us to love and laughter...very possibly our first breath of honest humility of which we will never have enough.
There is our proof that still more spiritual growth is leading us to where we need to be...to acceptance, our guarantee of gratitude following.
Thank you.
I am convinced gracious behavior is the righteous healer of discord. It is the seed from which love grows, the love that is the cessation of hate.
I have, I must say, experienced gracious behavior not making a pup's piddle to a person determined to act from a self-determined resentment. That one is akin to a runaway train...after we get out of the way and praise God it is not us, we search for the good in that.
I'm convinced the sliver of gold in being that one's target is in our realization that this is the raw material we receive in order to experience how well we walk what we talk. Most especially, how well do we not react in kind in our own mind later as we think about it.
We can behave graciously, walk away with clean hands, and awake at 3:00 AM cursing, plotting and planning how we coulda, woulda, shoulda...and will next time chew her a new one. That, even when we are satisfied with our actions and, from our eyebrows up, know we would not behave differently if the occasion arose.
It is the Father within which transmutes our resistance to those ego-victory thoughts to the acceptance of them as ever with us. Our acceptance lifts us to love and laughter...very possibly our first breath of honest humility of which we will never have enough.
There is our proof that still more spiritual growth is leading us to where we need to be...to acceptance, our guarantee of gratitude following.
Thank you.
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