...we are actually announcing our commitment to Jesus’ upside-down world where 'the last are first and the first are last' (Matthew 20:16) over any other power system or frame of reference.-- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," January 26, 2018
I love that quote because I had thought of my path of spiritual growth as "mirror imaging" God's world, which I still like, but "upside-down world" fits, too. Face it: What is more upside-down to our reasoning mind than the Sermon on the Mount's agree with your adversary quickly, resist not evil or turn the other cheek?
I feel blessed that when I finally realized the exactitude of the Sermon, I knew it for mine, and I've tried to walk it ever since...key word, "tried."
As I look back, I can see that it was in my trying that I got the great gift of love and laughter. Trying to go against our reasoning mind...about all that we can do with that is love and laugh. Love the fact that we'd even try and laugh that we keep trying! Ah, I'm guessing that may be how we tumble into God's hidey-hole within, and we find peace.
Just this morning I read darkness, failure, and loss can be our truest teachers. The path of descent is the path of transformation. There. Upon reading that, I was filled with a sense of glee. I again felt affirmed knowing that I'm on the right path, heading in the right direction...or that's how it translated to me. I loved it and laughed.
Thank you.
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