I am in your midst as your forgiving victim. This is how I prove my love to you: by taking you at your very lowest and worst point and saying 'Yes, you do this to me, but I’m not concerned about that, let’s see whether we can’t learn a new way of being together.' - René Girard (from Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," April 2, 2021)
Girard's few sentences provide the How-To Manual For Welcoming our Fears. His insight tells us how not to fear but welcome being the victim, which benefits both the victimizer and the victim...proof God's hand is in it. The key to forgiveness, held in God's hand, is nonresistance which unlocks the door to our hardened heart.
We talk "let go and let God," but when presented with ways in which to do just that, we balk...because letting go requires that we lose. Plain and simple. Our reasoning mind says we're the loser even while spiritual growth wins by seeking deeper for the Father within.
Until we have an exchange of mind, we will feel like we're doing it wrong...it's hard to love that losing feeling. Hard but not impossible...we remember God's mirror vision and are enwrapped in gratitude.
Gratitude is grace on angel wings, always hovering over us whether we know it or not.
Thank you.
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