Saturday, January 11, 2020

LOVE, LAUGH, GET GRATEFUL

From Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," January 11, 2020: In contemplative practice, the Holy Spirit frees us from taking sides and allows us to remain content in the partial darkness of every situation long enough to let it teach, broaden, and enrich us.

Interestingly, I spent the last couple hours plotting and planning ways to resist Gertrude's latest attack on my ego...how to not fight, not lie or worse how not to tell my truth on her...ah, but to Win. I had a blinding flash that I did not need to take my world aside to share My Truth or, for that matter, not even to move to Maryland. I could open my mind...let God suggest...become willing to listen, even to hear her, Gertrude.

Then I went into my quiet time, and the first thing I read was the above quote, and I wrote, "This is what I was just led to through my initial egoic reaction to Gertrude. My resistant thoughts were my gift, and they were broadened, and I know I am enriched."

From there, I saw that it is not just that Gertrude is my angel/emery board because she gives me something with which to file down my I See Me thoughts (plainly put, she peeves me daily), it is more important to me that I realize that I am her angel/emery board for that same reason...I give her something with which to smooth out her I See Me thoughts. We serve each other.

Those, and like, thoughts are the rough road to freedom from self. It is that road that leads us to the recognition and acceptance of our own self. If we had no thoughts resisting the Elmers, the Sylvias, i.e., our Gertrude, how could it be that the Holy Spirit frees us from taking sides and allows us to remain content in the partial darkness of every situation long enough to let it teach, broaden, and enrich us?

Love all, laugh...or at least smile...at self,

Thank you.

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