Sunday, June 14, 2020

LOVE AS NONRESISTANCE

Healthy spirituality leads us to true liberation by naming what’s real, what’s true, and what works—now and in the long run. This Ultimate Reality, the way things really work, is quite simply described as love. The wise ones recognize that without a certain degree of inner freedom, we cannot and will not truly love. Spirituality is about finding that freedom. - Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 14, 2020 

As I read the Ultimate Reality being love, I was happily reminded of my inner realization that love to me is simply nonresistance. 

By-the-by, that realization was the result of long and serious study about what love is, what love means, what love can be expected to do and/or not do, etc., ad nauseum. That study was with my friend when we were a lot younger and taking ourselves way too seriously...and I treasure every moment of that time.

The importance of my having come to realize that love is nonresistance is that gifted me with the truth of resist not evil. I had allowed myself to accept as truth what the Sermon taught (after a long arm wrestle with God). I consciously decided I'd either come to understand the why of it or not, but that it was truth, and I needed to heed it.

It is the inner freedom mentioned that I take to heart today. I suspect my inner freedom took root when I got my first knowing of self-acceptance...in the face of a higher-up at my office, I laughingly owned the fact that I'd never seen an opera, and given the chance, I'd opt for The Grand Ole Opry. That he did not even smile did not cause me to sputteringly back off. My wee miracle was that I resisted not, indeed I was grateful...amazed, but grateful. My larger miracle today is I hold no ill thoughts of him.  There. That entire episode to me is grace in her high-heeled sneakers, giving my self-acceptance her stamp of approval.

According to me, without a certain degree of inner freedom, we cannot and will not truly love, begins with that glimmer of love for our own self...our own blinding flash of the obvious that this I am, and the God of my understanding is good with me just so.

Love and laugh...resist not and walk free smiling.

Thank you.


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