ON GOING THROUGH THE TREPIDATIOUS

The past few I-know-not-what timespan I have felt...what? Less than? Trepidatious? I have experienced a health scare which sent me to the ER, then admission into the hospital overnight...which just doesn't make for a happy face. But I've been in my uh-oh mode for awhile...feeling kinda like my skin is on crooked. 

During this time, I've relied on my daily readings, my chats with friends and on the fail-safe, my trashy romances. Or, better yet, the new Chet and Bernie, "Of Mutts and Men." The God of my understanding accepts all the help I think I need. 

My good news is that I've been here before, and I firmly believe if we're doing it right, we'll be here many times. What else would send us to God as quickly and as surely? 

The following are a few quotes from Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" that I have saved. They help perk me up, find a new perspective...mainly by turning me away from my ego Lucy With The Football toward my angels:

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain....Only suffering and certain kinds of awe lead us into genuinely new experiences. All the rest is merely the confirmation of old experience. - March 30, 2020 

Remember that you already are what you are seeking. * * * The Path of Descent is very real and usually very painful, -- March 27, 2020

 

Episcopal priest Barbara Taylor Brown:   Who would stick around to wrestle a dark angel  all night long if there were any chance of escape? The only answer I can think of is this: someone in deep need of blessing; someone willing to limp forever for the blessing that follows the wound. * * * While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.  -- March 26, 2020

 

CAC faculty member Brian McLaren: When we call out for help, we are bound more powerfully to God through our needs and weakness, our unfulfilled hopes and dreams, and our anxieties and problems than we ever could have been through our joys, successes, and strengths alone.  --  March 25, 2020

The Path of Descent as the Path of Transformation: It is not in perfection that we reach the divine, but through the gateway of our mistakes and our suffering. -- March 23, 2020

God loves me so much.

Thank you.