There are religious and secular examples of that, Jesus' death being the most well-known to me. As I ponder that, I recognize that it is God consciousness that overcomes all adversity...specifically, all "incurable," "impossible" terrifying adversity.
To fight and fail is to fail; to fight and win is to fail; to fight is to fail...for by the fighting, we are seeing it as real...it is not.
All of that started in a blinding flash this morning. And then I read Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation": It means nothing if we intellectually accept that there is a God. The only moment that has any effect or revolution for us is when we acknowledge God’s active presence in our lives and the power of unconditional love.
Reasoning mind can and will put up all blocks...stripped, whipped, crucified...all necessary pain endured and that must be endured...to be overcome by our own consciousness of God.
If we choose not to endure the reality of our own worst fear (our "crucifixion") unto the final realization, then we choose to endure...and to endure worse each time. We are the determiner...and it keeps coming back until we get it right. We get it right when our will, our way, fails utterly...a.k.a., crash and burn.
To fight and fail is to fail; to fight and win is to fail; to fight is to fail...for by the fighting, we are seeing it as real...it is not.
To the likes of Jesus, and other named and unnamed saints, not fighting that which the reasoning mind knows as reality is the spiritual lesson to learn. Spiritually, love is the only reality, and God is love. To the likes of you and me, that's the impossible dream in this lifetime...to hold to that impossible dream is to visualize it as possible...and God's will.
All of that started in a blinding flash this morning. And then I read Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation": It means nothing if we intellectually accept that there is a God. The only moment that has any effect or revolution for us is when we acknowledge God’s active presence in our lives and the power of unconditional love.
Now, whether the blinding flash proves to be my spiritual turning point or more intellectual acceptance will become clearer to me daily...mostly by the activity of my mind, i.e., just how my thoughts, my wants and my will continue to detach, loosen and let go.
The conundrum: I will realize my BFO as a true turning point by the resistance I get from others...very few will know it as good, fewer will even see it. That is my thank you.
Thank you.
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