...great suffering or great love, the quickest and most universal ways that God uses to destabilize the self-referential ego. --Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation"
We know that utter surrender...crash and burn...is the ultimate gift of God and grace. We also know it sometimes feels like so much hoo-ha when we're on the path toward that surrender...probably because the path to surrender often feels like ennui, doing nothing, heading nowhere.
It is our reasoning mind that is slinging trash and calling it reality. That's why our go-to is gratitude...purely because it opposes reason. It is only our reality if we stay there, sinking slowly into its miasma.
Our focus must ever be on still more spiritual growth. And, who's kidding whom, when the drag of feeling less than is upon us, we know spiritual need quick, fast and in a hurry. That need is met by thank you.
Thank you comes like on the wings of a dove. No long, drawn out prayers, no pleadings, no heavy lifting...just thank you.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. - Matthew 6:7
Thank you.
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