Finding a way to not vilify or divide into 'them' and 'us' in today’s federal politics goes against . . . current custom. . . . —Simone Campbell
It seems to me that finding a way to not vilify or divide into “them” and “us” in our walking around world is our first hurdle since it goes against our egoic desires. Which, as we prove daily, always legislate for self.
It's one thing to inner-know that God is in the air we breathe...God is the air we breathe...it's another thing to know God is as completely in and of the material world. Rohr maintains that we are supposed to struggle with this....Otherwise we are not sincerely engaged with it.
These are my times when doing it right and feeling it are two entirely different things. Fortunately, we have learned that words can't get us there, only experience can. Know it or not, our experience comes through spiritual initiation. As in, give up, give over, give in...resist not evil. Doing it...ah, for sure that is spiritual initiation.
Example: God is in the material world of Gertrude making mock of me in public. That is a material world fact. My Golden Rule flashes: Try not to be as nasty as you want to be. So, making mock right back, ratting Gertrude out to others, sitting in silent scorn...none fit today purely because there is no peace there.
Thanking God for my thoughts about Gertrude aim me in the right direction of going beyond my egoic thoughts, my reasoning mind, to love. To love Gertrude and her mocking words...they're all the same when it comes to resistance.
This is a path of spiritual initiation...it's kinda like hold your nose and take a leap of faith. When we're out there in the ether, thank you are the only words we have...or need.
Thank you.
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