God has communicated in a million ways that 'I am your power,' but we do not believe and trust what we cannot see or prove. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," July 3, 2021
That causes me to wonder if the reasoning mind's spiritual reason for being isn't to prove the unproveable. As in, to explain God to the satisfaction of our own reason...which will ever be met with dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction is the human situation anyway, according to Rohr.
I am reminded of my June bug experience: Some years back, when the screens in our windows were the two-piece, sliding apart kind, I was alone in my apartment when I heard an agitated, whirring sound. Caught in my two-piece screen was a June bug.
Clearly, it could not get free, and it was not happy...or it sounded less than happy at any rate. Of course, I determined to free it...I got some object, a pen maybe, and went to work trying to free this poor thing. The harder I tried, the more agitated it sounded, and I was getting pretty agitated myself. It seemed so simple: push the bug out from between the two pieces and be done with it.
I finally realized I was about to kill the bug trying to free it. I threw down the pen, and said, out loud to the bug, "You have the same God I have...you're going to need to rely on Him because I can't help you."
With that, I turned and as I walked away, I heard a new whirring sound, I looked over my shoulder, and there was the bug...flying away. Free.
Think gobsmacked...then multiply it by infinity. That was me.
I even wrote it all out in my "God Calling," and I recall every year that now faded feeling of gobsmacked and awe.
There's the well-hidden clue, that now faded feeling. I am certain sure if I had not written about the June bug experience in my "God Calling," it would be a bare memory now, fainter all the time.
We do have God, we can and we need to rely on Him always and all ways, and that is all we need. Which truth rests peacefully within.
Our own material world is ever with us albeit only occasionally peaceful. Ah...and there is our good news...what else would bring us to God with hope in our heart but our reasoning mind kicking our can down the road?
We know we're at the end of that particular rough road when again we recall: We do have God, and we can rely on God for God is all we need.
We love it and laugh.
Thank you.
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