Immediately, I flashed that it is this very anxiety that we need to experience. This is the path we walk to prove fear is God in camouflage, that nothing turns us to God faster than fear.
Without fear, without this anxiety that I'm praying to be rid of, how can I prove that? How can I rely on that if it remains words, profound words, but just words?
To experience anxiety knowing God is in the midst of it walking us through to the other side brings the peace of mind we've ever sought. Who knew peace of mind would come wrapped in anxiety? No wonder our reasoning mind will never win in a battle with God's will.
God does not lift our fears, he is one with the fear, with us, so there is nothing to fear. That which we think of as an old adage...feel the fear and do it anyway...is our need. Our wants be damned.
Fr Richard Rohr wrote this morning: To incarnate the Christ is to live out the Gospel with our lives, as faithfully and fearlessly as a woman in labor who holds nothing back in order to bring new life into the world.
I'm not conversant with incarnate the Christ, but I definitely connect with as faithfully and fearlessly as a woman in labor who holds nothing back in order to bring new life into the world.
That is an apt description of God's will made manifest...hold nothing back (push toward the pain!) in order to bring deeper realization to life within us.
God's love cannot be imagined...there is no end-run around the pain...or the joy.
Thank you.
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