Shucking our shields can seem like we are losing our hold on our own personhood...from our eyebrows up, we know God has our back, but, who's kidding whom? It's our exposed back, our quivering belly, that causes us pause.
Wanting to realize God in our life is a self-determined objective...as long as we want it, pray for it, seek it through books, teachers, preachers gurus, et al., we may well be heading in the right direction, but the how-to is all of self. We need the perfect objective which is of God.
Comes the dawning realization that all the roadblocks in our life were put there by invitation only...put there by ourself, our own thoughts, which warms our heart and scares us silly both at the same time. For with that realization, we recognize God's hand ever in it intervening in our life on our behalf...without that having seemed to be the case.
The paradox, of course, is the way of the self leads to crash and burn...thus to God. The road is long, the self gets weary, of necessity we crash and burn, and there in the ashes of our self-determined objective, we find the God of our own understanding.
We get to God by doing it wrong not by doing it right. -- Fr. Richard Rohr
In the end we understand that there is no wrong way to seek God...some ways just take longer than others. Or maybe it's just that they seem to take longer. Getting God is not on our timetable...we have God. We are born with God within us/without us. Our acceptance of that truth is the time taker.
Our realization may be helped by our teachers and preachers, but never doubt: God is in charge. Of every iota of anything and everything, anywhere and everywhere, seen and unseen, known and unknown. Ah, and that very God lives within each of us.
Let It Be.
Thank you.
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