Here's my stand: We each are given our own choice of how to go to God, but getting to God is the outcome for all of us.
There is only one beginning, God consciousness, and one ending, God consciousness...the filling between, i.e., you and me (or ego), is innumerable, with newbies being born every instant.
It is our ego that legislates for itself ever and always...ergo, there's our spiritual workplace. The work, of course, is ego deflation in depth which starts with our conscious decision to deny self. In our daily walking around world that means we need to deny our perspective, our wants, our opinions. Fairly puny matters in fact. But to my ego Lucy...that's my truth, on which rests my self-esteem, for which I must stand and fight.
This, then, is our spiritual work: To give up analyzing our resistance...a stuck place for certain sure, since analyzing is just another word for justifying. The light breaks through when we realize analyzing is resistance, that we must needs give thanks for it...in another word, surrender.
In the moment of our surrender, our decision is made in favor of the Lord's outcome whatever it may be. We give up, we give in, we give over. It matters not who "wins," or who "loses," because with Lucy out of the picture, there is no winner or loser. There is only grace. Our burden, self, is lifted.
We can choose to live dependent on our own self, on our reasoning mind, or to live dependent on a power greater than our self...that which we cannot see, touch or hear...or, fortunately, prove. We have made our choice and in this sacred place we realize our life is just beginning...our spiritual work has just begun. There. Faith is born.
We must all carry the cross of our own reality until God transforms us through it. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 17, 1018
Thank you.
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