OUR FIRST NEED...FOR OTHERS

For good or for ill, our choices as individuals have a collective impact on others and future generations. How we treat each other is a marker of our freedom in God. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," January 20, 2021

Be the first to give over, give up, give in...I don't recall when I had that blinding flash of the obvious, but I can guess it was when and while I was wrestling with trying to do We have ceased fighting everything and everybody.

It matters not when, what matters is that I believed give over for true. I knew that was the way of my cross. I'd come to see that it is the teeny-tinys in my life that are my bane and my boon, my good news/bad news both together. I knew without a second thought that to cease fighting everything and everybody would require ego-deflation in depth...reasoning mind: Wonderful! Impossible!

Hard, hard lesson learning...ego-deflation in depth cannot be done by self alone nor by God alone. We  must needs turn our will and our life over to the care of our God, not by our thoughts, not by our words but by our actions. 

The invisible God of my understanding has no hands, no feet, no voice but mine...which I must entrust to the God of my understanding. See? It's not for the reasoning mind. There. That's what faith is for.

Our faith's foundation is the trust in our invisible God that we build daily. Ah, and we begin building our faith after he has gone before us to make the crooked places straight. We make mock of hindsight, but, face it, it is perfect 20/20...voila, trust, our building block. 

Our first need is to upgrade our treatment of others to allow others to upgrade their treatment of others with our own self a side bennie.  

How we treat each other is a marker of our freedom in God. 

Thank you.