Idle thought: Nothing of God is ever wasted. All the prayers that we pray, all the spiritual axioms that we quote, we think if we are not consciously doing them even as we breathe, then they are just pretty words signifying nothing. No. They may well be falling on just one pair of ears that needs to hear, ready and waiting to get the word that will take root there and grow. And flow out to another in need of hearing them. In order to grow and flow.
Another idle thought: Our rational mind looks at Jesus being vilified and replying naught...which led to his crucifixion. My ego Lucy thinks he did it wrong...in ego's view he should have been avenged, gotten the better of his accusers and rode off to glad Hosannas. Looking good. But he didn't...he did it for the glory of God, not for self. And the glory of God has come down from that moment to this through the consciousness of the Christ...which we get to choose. Until we choose, we lose.
And another: The egoic mind's idea of love is to accept others without question...kinda like a child hugging a teddy bear...any teddy bear, they're all the same to a child. What the ego fails to realize or accept is that the love of God is imbued with respect, and there is our hard lesson a-learning...how to love all with respect.
Extreme example: Take, say, a rattlesnake or just anyone who will not hear us...we've learned that we must love all, but how? Ah, love starts with our respect for the other and for who and what they are. Neither a rattlesnake nor the non-hearer is for hugging, but they, like you and me, are loved by God.
We go to God for God which opens the love in our heart that needs naught but to flow out...and we walk on in peace.
The work of spirituality is constant detachment from ourselves...our conditioning, preferences, and knee-jerk reactions. -- Fr. Richard Rohr
Thank you.
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