Spiritual growth offers us an entirely different way of knowing: an intimate relationship, a dark journey, a path where we must discover for ourselves that grace, love, mercy, and forgiveness are absolutely necessary for survival in an uncertain world. (From Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" of December 1, 2019, slightly reworked.)
According to me, our "old" way of knowing grace, love, mercy, and forgiveness is useless to us now...to hold to that way is to hold to our feeling guilt, shame and blame even as we know not why. The why is our ego at a loss because ego is lost in a spiritually woke soul...reasoning mind on the run, so to speak.
Learning to live fully present to this moment, to live without certitude, seems to our reasoning mind a way to live uncertain and unsure...nervous at best. But detaching from the want to know (self-described as a need) is the door upon which our Father knocks opening to our inner security, faith.
Ah, and when those few bright and fleeting moments come, we know and we know we know and we know not what for certain sure we know...but we feel our inner elfin spirit running through the proverbial field of flowers with butterflies and rainbows abounding.
As Rohr has written, You only need enough clarity to know how! Yes, we really are saved by faith.
Or, my favorite from "The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" by Thaddeus Golas: We must go beyond reason to love.
Thank you.
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