We are all looking for a larger and more loving story in which to participate. This is what God gives us! Our ordinary lives are given an extraordinary significance when we accept that our lives are about something more meaningful than winning and succeeding inside of a very small plot line. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," January 13, 2021
We are all looking for a larger and more loving story in which to participate. There it is. Our "looking for" is our want. A "larger and more loving story" is the result we want.
It is the want of our result we finally come to learn...to totally accept...that is our nemesis. We can never gut-bucket seek to know and to do "Thy will, not mine" until the result we want is in second, third...no. Until actually it has no place in our life.
This does not mean we shall never want again...we cannot not feel want. It is that our want, like our fear, will be just another thank you as it flows through our life...to experience at an ever-deepening and higher level.
Slowly. Very, very slowly.
It is the slow act of recognition that births the realization that our thinking, feeling, doing...Being...are for the benefit of others. Ah, but our living cannot be at the expense of our self for the benefit of others...that all but ensures self-will in the driver's seat. No. When a life is lived by the grace of God, all sides find a larger and more loving story in which to participate.
Which is probably never by the way we envisioned. God's will is not for us to foresee...it is for us to live Now. That's how each side comes out the winner.
Thank you.
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