My take is the little noticed by me but really important words...that the rains are going to come whether we're doing His words or not. It rains on the just and the unjust alike.
It's not an easy fact to remember, that doing the good we are learning does not exempt us from the rains, because, face it, that is what we usually are praying for. No, it is taking the steps we are learning that we are safe, secure and unafraid (or close enough) in the midst of the rain, i.e., the political/pandemic/financial/civil rights/climate change, etc., storms of today's world.
Doing the work of our spiritually based program frees us, if only a tish, from our ego. It is our daily discipline of freeing ourself from our egoic mind that allows us to pass on to those who follow all that is ever passed on to us.
All that being my truth, Rohr's post this morning is particularly apt:
The ego seems to find its energy precisely by having something to oppose, fix, or change....We must recognize our constant tendency toward negating reality, resisting it, opposing it, and attacking it on the level of our mind. This is the universal addiction. -- Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," July 26, 2020.
Thank you.
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