In our drive for still more spiritual growth, we often mistake a spiritually based life for a fret-free life...or an unquestioning life. What do I do now? no longer exists in our spiritually fantastical world. Isn't that what all the training our own self to detach from our own self is about? Living certain.
Well, no it isn't. It's the old lesson dressed differently...we go to God for God and that is all. If we go to God praying to live free of uncertainty, that want becomes the invisible, the untouchable...our God in a word.
As Fr Richard Rohr has written, Silence and solitude may not always be what we most need. An admittedly big surprise to me was learning that going to the reasoning mind for the Right Thing To Do is not always the wrong way.
I guess this is all about learning the value of Now...there is no future way to know when our answer is not silence and solitude and relying on the reasoning mind is.
Our self-driven spiritual surety is turned on its head, back on its tail, twisted and turned in order for us to be opened, for our consciousness to be raised higher to a deeper level. That's when we're doing it right.
Can I get an Amen?
Thank you.
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