[On singing the song of trust in the Lord] We trust in the Lord, stay on the battlefield, and treat everybody right until we die because, frankly, nonviolent love can get you killed. *** This is not a song to make you famous, but a faith to sustain you when you go to jail, when the money runs out, when you are powerless and cold and alone. You sing this song, and you know you’re not alone. You’ve been invited into something big enough to hold all your sorrows. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 23, 2019, quoting another whom I neglected to note.
There. That I believe from my toenails up. It is also my proof positive that what I believe and what I do are two distinctly different things...some of the time.
I know from my own experience that my "song of trust in the Lord" will sustain me because it has more than once when the money was not there, when I was powerless, when I was friendless, mocked and humiliated, when I, personally, was not the faithful friend.
Another hard lesson to welcome: Faith is not a one-shot-deal.
Without a need to build our faith, we'd not go for still more spiritual growth...which, face it, invites hard knocks, faithless friends and frayed rope bridges.
How else are we going to learn to love, to be ye perfect even as our Father is perfect? Which few of us expect in this lifetime but that's sufficient reason for me to believe in...hope for?...reincarnation. We keep coming back until we get it right.
We come back knowing the song of trust in the Lord...we don't come back alone.
Thank you.
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