I have ever believed that we all come from and return to God consciousness. As gay contemplative writer Michael Bernard Kelly is quoted in Rohr's "Daily Meditation" this morning, We came from union and all of our longing is a movement back toward union.
In my simple world that stands with my belief of a common pool of God-consciousness from which all are born and all return...there to be born and reborn until we get it right.
It seems our exchanged mind teaches us that our travels through life are enhanced by the briars, for which we become grateful; our glories are to be appreciated in the moment, then loosed and let go...for which we need to get grateful.
We make those travels difficult by our natural inclination to avoid the briars and the brambles...but whoever learned a new lesson from the glory they received from doing it right in the first place?
From our eyebrows up, we wish, desire, want to keep doing it right, only our self-determination clings to that which we have, effectually staying new growth, God's perfect objective.
Our self-determined objective may seem right, good and true...we want to be loved, lose weight, Be Somebody. Except that there is no God there.
That "except" is terribly difficult to recognize much less accept since all the while we are mentally on our knees praying for to get love, get thin, get glory. "To get" is the nature of a self-determined objective.
The perfect objective which is of God is to give. How else could the paradox you've got to give it away to keep it be true?
This is the heart of our yearning: to become that which we taste and hunger for, not briefly, but fully, totally, permanently, being utterly transformed into that which we desire so deeply....the seeker transformed into that which she seeks. -- Kelly in Rohr's "Daily Meditation" today (and I say "Amen")
Thank you.
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