ON FINDING STANDING GROUND OUTSIDE

Somehow our occupation and vocation as believers in this time must be to first restore the Divine Center by holding it and fully occupying it ourselves. If contemplation means anything, it means that we can “safeguard that little piece of You, God, in ourselves” as Etty Hillesum describes it. What other power do we have now? --  Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," March 21, 2021

I wonder if I'm not again coming to that place of surrender of my mind..."maybe I'm supposed to go crazy, lose my mind, wind up at St E's...if that be it, let it come...I give up." My very words in 1973 or thereabouts while I sat sobbing, waiting to go crazy...nothing outwardly happened. 

Later I inwardly found my pearl beyond price...it was that complete surrender of my mind that freed me of the bondage of reliance on my mind. Loose it and let it go. 

It may well be that to safeguard that little piece of You, God, in ourselves is to release my mind, my idea of safety. If that be God's will already made manifest, what good can come from  resistance? 

As God wills, I walk...with fear or without...makes no nevermind...God's will in me made manifest by nonresistance is all.  

 ...the tricky work is to find standing ground outside the totalism from which to think the unthinkable, to imagine the unimaginable, and to utter the unutterable. -- Walter Brueggemann

Thank you.