EXACTLY WHAT DO WE WANT AND DESIRE?

There is never an unanswered prayer. According to me.

Just yesterday I was coming to my realization through acceptance (or vice versa) that my age was my pearl beyond price...that this time of my life is the time of peace, love and joy multiplied endlessly. It was more or less a prayer that that be true, I suspect.

This morning I am led to the following from my post of August 18, 2012...that's six years ago when I was still trying to fit into being 70. It is to laugh...and to love because why not? 

The following is adapted from "Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life",  p. 160, by Fr. Richard Rohr: Remember this: no one can keep you from the second half of life except yourself. Nothing can inhibit your second journey except your own lack of courage, patience, and imagination. Your second journey is all yours to walk or to avoid. My conviction is that some falling apart of the first journey is necessary for this to happen, so do not waste a moment of time lamenting poor parenting, lost jobs, failed relationships, physical handicaps, gender identity, economic poverty, or even the tragedy of any kind of abuse. Pain is part of the deal. If you don’t walk into the second half of your own life, it is you who do not want it. God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. So make sure you desire, desire deeply, desire yourself, desire God, and desire everything good, true, and beautiful. 

Note: God will always give you exactly what you truly want and desire. 

Note well: Ego will always speak louder than God...not truer just louder.

The time is come in our life when we shuck our shield of pretense...the one we hide behind pretending that we want to be sweet, kind, consider, lovable and generous not to mention wholly spiritual.

Ah, comes the dawn...it does not matter what our shield of pretense is...cool, calculating, sophisticated, a total goofball or a lovable rube from down on the farm. That is our own idea of who and what we are, and its only purpose is to keep us feeling separate and apart...not one.

Again we know, the time is come in our life when we shuck all shields for God will always give us exactly what we truly want and desire.

Our latest path in life, then, is to truly want and desire God for God...and that is all.

Thank you.