The realization is deepening that all of our self-centered regrets are born and nurtured in our egoic mind. Spiritually, each regret is our pearl beyond price for each turns us to God...sometimes p.d.q., but usually slow and slower...as we try to will it dead.
We tend to forget that it is our attempts to kill our rues, regrets and remorses that in fact nurture them...our entire attention focused on them? That is Miracle-Gro to the ego, regret or not.
It should come as no surprise to learn that our egoic mind is one of God's hidey-holes...face it, that is the last place we would look to find surcease of our perceived pain. And the last place we look is ever the site of our crash and burn...also the site where the mystical hope that Cynthia Bourgeault writes about is born.
Cynthia Bourgeault writes: This journey to the wellsprings of [mystical] hope is not something that will change your life in the short range, in the externals. Rather, it is something that will change your innermost way of seeing. From there, inevitably, the externals will rearrange. . . . The journey to the wellsprings of hope is really a journey toward the center, toward the innermost ground of our being where we meet and are met by God. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," April 16, 2020
Thank you.
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