LOVE IS THE ANSWER...THE ONLY ANSWER

According to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) our inner attitudes and states are the real sources of our problems. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 30, 2018

I am grateful my spiritual life started with the instruction to have...to build if you will...the God of my own understanding. I was fairly broken at the time so I was blessed to be advised to find and stay with one source for my primary guide in seeking my own...then I could remain open to other spiritual material...if it enhanced my primary guide, incorporate it.

I chose the Sermon on the Mount...I tend to believe the Sermon chose me. Gratefully, I have learned from the Buddha, Kris Kristofferson, Brother Lawrence, Chief Joseph. The list is all but endless, but at the top, ah, I continue to learn from F.X., my mentor, my love, who speaks the Sermon, but in my language, a tish profane but always with love.  

I have become convinced that the primary source of all my woes is my inability...no, I am able, it's my ego-victory refusal...to tame my attack mind. That's what clicked when I read Rohr this morning, for I have come to believe that our inner attitudes and states are the real sources of our problems.

The proof of that is the fact that if we will but change our mind, our problem will go away. I was gifted with a blinding flash of the obvious once awhile back which I am still learning to lean on...upgrade your attitude, upgrade your problem. 

We cannot change our mind, we cannot upgrade our attitude, relying solely on our reasoning mind. Common sense tells us if we believe we are right, we're not going to change our mind...for why? 

We must go beyond reason to love. 

Since love is the answer no matter the question, the problem, the other, we need to find a way to look at our "right" from another angle. To look with the inner desire to find a way not to be wrong but to be in agreement with that which or whom we are opposing. 

Our intellect is our friend here. It takes some serious thinking to come to complete defeat. Just coming to the right answer will not give us peace...that's begrudging, and begrudging is Lucy bitching about it. No. Complete defeat is the changing room in God's hidey hole...the place where we can exchange surrender for acceptance and walk free in love.

Learning to give love in order to accept love is going to God for God...and that is all.

Thank you.