Having heard that many times over the years, I knew to be true Rohr's belief that "it is more important to know that we love God than to know that God loves us."
It was in looking back that I could see that my reasoning mind resisted that which sounded...what? Pompous? Egotistical? Probably. For sure, our barely believing self did not want to offend God just as we were getting air.
There's the value of letting things perc...resist not, welcome with reservations. To adopt as our own before its time is to cause chaos between our ears. "Before its time" is before God has turned our resistant mind over to our spiritual core.
According to me, all spiritual growth begins in our spiritual core...that place within of which we know naught and discover almost with disbelief. I am realizing (cementing within) much of what I've learned over the years, believed to be true, preached and prayed about...but knew not as my born-within gifts.
We take them as that which has been gifted us from without. Never daring to believe that we are born with a spiritual core breathing the love of our Father, our angels, our Self. Not being certain sure back then that God IS, made it fairly dicey to admit to believing "It's more important to know that I love God than to know that God loves me."
No wonder it takes so long to trust, to have gut-bucket faith in the God of our own understanding. But there it is...the Rock upon which we are building our Home.
That Rock is love, our spiritual core, our love of God...God's love of us, of you and me. Love...and laughter, of course.
Thank you.
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