As I read Rohr this morning, that sentence changed before my eyes. According to my reading: When we no longer expect anything new or anything more from God, we are ready to receive the new that God now wants to speak to us.
I pondered that and realized that when we go to God on our knees, pious in appearance, praying for anything, our ego is on parade. The piety we show is all for God...so God can "get" how spiritually sincere we are, can hear our earnest and honest petition...not to put too fine a point on it, but to change his mind and grant us what we pray for...i.e., not what we need (God's will) but what we want (our will).
I saw God's hand in my note in "God Calling" this morning: 2017 - BFO: There are different levels of 'right' - rues, regrets, remorses are self-determined objectives, to regret with no attachment to it is of God.
There are different levels of "right," so Rohr's statement is right as is my understanding expanded.
That could work as a definition of expanding consciousness...to receive what is said or written and to get it from another angle need not be disagreement but agreement extended.
Blinding flash of the obvious: We react, God responds.
This is my thank you prayer to God: Thank you for this understanding, and especially thank you that I remember it when (not if) I hear some nattering jerks and my innards go all rigid, righteous and right and immediately, if not sooner, I feel I must set them straight for their own good.
Clearly, God has my work cut out for him. Ah, another building block in trust.
Thank you.
Clearly, God has my work cut out for him. Ah, another building block in trust.
Thank you.
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