GO FOR THE GOLD...GOD

The following is from Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation, " February 8, 2020:

In his book 'The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation,' author Stephan A. Schwartz offers life-practices he gathered from observing the Quakers.  In studying the histories of  great social transformations, Schwartz found eight laws began to emerge....Taken together, they reveal how individual choice linked in consensus becomes the strategy of beingness that creates change. 

Here are the laws: 

First Law. The individuals, individually, and the group, collectively, must share a common intention. 

Second Law. The individuals and the group may have goals, but they may not have cherished outcomes. 

Third Law. The individuals in the group must accept that their goals may not be reached in their lifetimes and be okay with this. 

Fourth Law. The individuals in the group must accept that they may not get either credit or acknowledgment for what they have done and be authentically okay with this. 

Fifth Law. Each person in the group, regardless of gender, religion, race, or culture, must enjoy fundamental equality, even as the various roles in the hierarchy of the effort are respected. 

Sixth Law. The individuals in the group must forswear violence in word, act, or thought.

Seventh Law. The individuals in the group and the group itself must make their private selves consistent with their public postures. 

Eighth Law. The individuals in the group and the group collectively must always act from the beingness of life-affirming integrity.

Here's my inner law of spiritual condition...I read those eight laws, and I try to see if and how I am living them today. And I think my thank you.

Here's my human condition: I read those eight laws, and even as I am basking in my thank you, the names of a couple people who really could use them springs to mind. And I think uh-oh.

Go for the gold, find it, then love and laugh.

Thank you.