According to Fr Richard Rohr, "somewhere, somehow the challenge comes that sets us on a different path."
This is not a path we take in order to become hip, slick and cool, but a way we trudge toward "a faith that will sustain us when we go to jail, when the money runs out, when we are powerless and cold and alone"...when fear is feasting on our very soul.
That's when we're doing it right.
What else could so completely prove to us our powerlessness? Could cause us in our helplessness to seek cosmic help. There it is. Proof our reasoning mind in turmoil is a gift from on high deep within.
And its name is God. For it is God alone come to our aid disguised as another in need whom we can help, an abused animal by the side of the road, a dire diagnosis for ourself or a loved one...even the high sheriff and police that we've been trying to avoid.
We never know the time or the place our challenge will come...and, we discover, to our aid. The new path we have chosen teaches and prepares us to invite all in...to welcome all.
We welcome with a prayer of thank you; we love and laugh.
Thank you.
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