PASS IT ON

I was deliberately and defiantly disobedient to my own self this morning.

I consciously and on purpose defied my own hard-won discipline:  I did not get up until well after 6:00, watched "Morning Joe," ate a treat, then breakfast. Not until 8:00 did I make myself available to God and then meditating only, not reading anything. Then I watched more of "Joe" and just now at 9:30 a.m., am sitting down to blog.

I do believe all this started maybe a week ago with my consciously and deliberately saying to myself that I'll eat a self-forbidden treat whenever I want, as much as I want, because who's going to say me nay...my exact thoughts and actions. 

Only I can turn back to God, to spiritual principles, to living at peace within myself...for only I turned my back on them. 

Oh, I bring good news: I wrote the above, and then I read this morning's Fr Richard Rohr wherein he quoted Bryan Stevenson who, in his book "Just Mercy," wrote: ...what would happen if we all just acknowledged our brokenness, if we owned up to our weaknesses, our deficits, our biases, our fears. Maybe if we did, we could no longer take pride in mass incarceration, in executing people, in our deliberate indifference to the most vulnerable. *** Embracing our brokenness creates a need for mercy....

I am grateful I acknowledged my self-driven disobedience before I read that...but reading it ensures I'll not just post it, but tell it...out loud and to others because I do believe embracing our brokenness creates a need for mercy.

Thank you.