Fr. Richard Rohr has written that we shouldn’t try to get rid of our own pain until we’ve learned what it has to teach. My ego Lucy will have none of that...to be rid of pain is Lucy's primary goal. Face it, her motto is perfect peace is having someone to blame which sets her go-to fix, namely, finding someone to blame.
That is the very nut of our daily boondoggle...seeking still more spiritual growth and trying to find someone to blame both at the same time. See the problem? See where we live? Pretty much describes life on our little piece of earth, doesn't it?
Rohr has also written that it is our ego that insists on understanding. Why is that a surprise? Probably because understanding has been our stated goal for coming to agreement with 'Rude when s/he is wrong. Ah, but both sides...ego-victory and God-induced...are on point here.
Like life itself, we get to choose which path we're going to walk. Seeking to understand in order to get control, or seeking to understand to come to agreement and thus to love? On paper, that's pretty much like my budget...I can save big bucks on paper just as I can love, laugh, dance and be happy in my journal.
Good news...there is nothing wrong with that. That is the process. That is heading in the right direction. Aiming our self in the right direction and miss-stepping, then getting back on track, and doing it all over again...more than a couple times...is life on life's terms.
That's the nature of life's boondoggle and ego's insistence on understanding (resistance to giving over, giving up, giving in, i.e., God). We see this, we accept this, we make peace with this...we pray our Thank You.
Ah, you know it yourself, Lord, through having borne the anguish of it as a man: on certain days the world seems a terrifying thing: huge, blind, and brutal. . . . Since my human dignity, O God, forbids me to close my eyes to this . . . teach me to adore it by seeing you concealed within it. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu, p 112.
Thank you.
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