SHARING THE UNDILUTED LOVE OF GOD

One of my favorite Fr Richard Rohr Meditations, entitled Losing Is Winning, was posted on June 19, 2015. His opening paragraph is everything we need know unto breathing about self-acceptance, also known as ego-deflation in depth:  We don't come to God by doing it right. Please believe me on this. We come to God by doing it wrong. Any guide of souls knows this to be true. If we come to God by being perfect, no one is going to come to God. This absolutely levels the playing field. Our failures open our hearts of stone and move the rigid mind space toward understanding and patience. It is in doing it wrong, being rejected, and experiencing pain that we are lead to total reliance upon God. 

To me, full understanding of that requires acceptance that our reasoning mind driven by ego, which always legislates for self, will invariably chastise, scold and natter when we do make our mistakes. 

To our ego, if that quote is right, deliberately doing it wrong would be our goal. No. That's just another self-determined objective. Leading to a boatload of trouble. For which we'd blame God.

Our reasoning mind must be gentled into accepting that God's will is in the spiritual risk of doing our best to live by spiritual principles, seeking guidance from God and friends, becoming willing to give over, give up, give in...and ofttimes to end up feeling What was I thinking? I must look the fool. There. God's will in a unwanted flash...to risk looking like a fool in the search for still more spiritual growth is grace...probably only appreciated through ego-deflation in depth. 

In our fear of looking the fool, we more often overlook the pearl beyond price...that our peace comes in our doing what we are learning...in our giving over, up and in. In risking giving over, we feel  immersed in love...as we give love, we receive love. We are a child of God...and so is our former foe with whom we share the undiluted love of God.

Thank you.