Blinding flash of the obvious: It is not God who makes harsh demands on me, it is I who make harsh demands on me for God to walk me through...that's how any perceived debacle then becomes the pearl beyond price on the other side.
This backup instruction from Rohr today: We believe . . . that the power to be truly radical comes from trusting entirely in God’s grace and that such trust is the most radical action possible.
Blinding flash or passing thought: Maybe truth is proved daily by the very talk I question. It is in looking back that I know...not the gift of realization before knowing but knowing based on my own experience...that God intervenes in my life in my behalf. That there is a sliver of gold in every mud pie slung in my face by my own self. That God can and will if sought.
Oh wait! God can, will and does whether we seek him or not...it is ever our trust that needs improvement.
The pearl, of course: Most often His solution is radically different from our idea for the solution. That's where we begin building our trust...by changing our mind.
...we must one day pass beyond discursive thinking and enter into a higher mode of knowing. -- Eknath Easwaran, "Words to Live By," December 28
Thank you.
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