To live our lives based on the principles of a love ethic (showing care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate), we have to be courageous. Learning how to face our fears is one way we embrace love. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 11, 2020
When first we read, To live our lives based on the principles of a love ethic, we eagerly jump to the assumption that that we can and will do. Then we read further and see showing care, respect, knowledge, integrity, and the will to cooperate, and we hesitate...but only for a moment for we sincerely want to love and be loved.
As (and if) we grow spiritually, we become aware that being "rocketed into the fourth dimension" carries a whole 'nother mindset than to love and be loved...if we are to move up to a deeper level.
We are brought to a new understanding...that living God's will, the basis for a spiritually based life, results in a mirror-image of our idea of the way things "ought" to be...or, in introducing the Sermon on the Mount, Rohr calls it, "Jesus' upside-down version." As a for-instance, check out Matthew 5:39: Do not resist one who is evil. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. It only gets better...by which I mean spiritually rich, reasoning mind resistant.
We are at an entirely different level of our turned-over-to-God decision. We see without seeing, hear without hearing, know without knowing how we know. Our inner eye is opened...we begin learning the art of acceptance.
Learning how to face our fears is one way we embrace love. Acceptance, in a word.
Thank you.
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