If you overcome your enemies, you’ve failed. If you make your enemies your partners, God has succeeded. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 9, 2016
To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu
I tend to accept that mental resistance is the real block to God's will, and if so, our enemy is our thinking which leads to judgments. Which is the ground floor for either/or thinking, namely, two parties married to the idea that either I am right or you are wrong.
Our daily guide now becomes to love...to love, and that is all. Like acceptance, love does not mean to throw in the towel, do nothing and wait for our gravy train to roll in. No. Learning how to love all even the fire in the forest, the plague in the village, the rot in the fields, up to and including the death of a beloved requires serious work...only now from the inside, from God's hidey hole.
The answer is surrender...our need is to surrender. Since that very word says loser to our ego, we are forced to look deeper. It often takes grace to open our eyes to surrender as acceptance. For it is. Acceptance of what is right before us is God's invitation to ride...no, to drive.
Our experience is often that the less we resist the picture before our eyes, the sooner we have proof that God's hand was in it all the time. We come to rely on the promise that God can and will intervene in our life on our behalf. The pearl is ours when we understand that his intervention seldom fulfills our wants, and we prefer it that way...we know our needs (his will) are far better for us that our wants.
That realization becomes our walking around truth, slowly it moves from the head, to the heart, on to our gut, down to the soles of our feet. There it is...and we stand on it.
Thank you.
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