REALITY RESISTS NOT

They that have revelation must live it. Practice doing no harm...set an intention...it’s not just words that we speak, it’s a life practice that supports us in regularly aligning our heart and mind with our actions...set an intention and reflect on it often. This intention is about doing no harm in our speech, our actions, or in our thoughts. -- Fr Richard Rohr, August 3, 2019, "Daily Meditation"

It is a wondrous thing to be given a second chance...and a third chance...and a fourth, fifth, sixth...ah, a new chance as and when needed.

The more wondrous thing, though, is our ever-dawning realization that with each new chance given us comes a personal responsibility. That is, we must become living evidence of our earned inheritance.

We earn our second, third, fourth, etc., chances by our changed mind, the mind that now seeks to know and to do God's will rather than our own will. Say we feel slighted, cheated, publicly humiliated...are we willing to be still and know that I am God? Or, in self-speak, shut up and listen. Listen with an inviting mind, the mind that lets go of the fear that we will lose and they will win if we do not respond in kind...if we do not resist. Ah, the base of our changed-mind practice: Resist not evil.

Our actual willingness to follow God's will rests in our proving it. We prove it, as Rohr wrote, when we practice doing no harm in our speech, our actions, or in our thoughts...it’s a life practice that supports us in regularly aligning our heart and mind with our actions.

Resist not evil. --  Matthew 5:39

Thank you.