ON TAKING OUR LEAP OF FAITH

I have learned to use my anger for good. . . . Without it, we would not be motivated to rise to a challenge. It is an energy that compels us to define what is just and unjust. — Gandhi

Literalism is usually the lowest and least level of meaning. -- Fr Richard Rohr

I am convinced that living by the Sermon on the Mount works for the good in us and for the benefit of humankind. 

Actually doing that, however, takes a lot of prep work starting with bringing our reasoning mind to agree with it...face it, taken literally, it doesn't offer a lot of comfort. To accept it as truth we must follow is an act of God, i.e., acceptance. It is that acceptance that opens the door for us to go deeper into higher consciousness, and the literal is transmuted into the spiritual. 

We begin our spiritual growth long before we know we have begun...in our teens, "letting" our best friend win a meaningless argument qualifies as a first step. We're beginning the arduous journey of detachment...letting go of self.  We start by going along to get along which is nothing but...what else?..getting over oneself, the very foundation of spiritual growth.

For example, resist not evil on its face, or to the reasoning mind, is to be a doormat, or better our world's carpet. Our unvarnished ego is geared one hundred percent to and for the benefit of "me," and if I'm the doormat, I welcome it. That is also known as being The Victim. 

 

Yet by a change of our mind, no longer self-driven but God-guided, to resist not evil in our raised consciousness is to love. There is nothing to resist, there is only God, Love. 

The fear we feel as we analyze this before having such a radical change of mind is God in camouflage...softening us for that exchange. Remembering don't analyze, utilize, we hold our nose and take a leap of faith.

There. Our bare beginning in becoming willing to live the Sermon on the Mount. We will spend our life trying to get back to that leap of faith.

Thank you.