Rohr has written, "If we have not made contact with our true power, the Indwelling Spirit, we will seek power in all the wrong places."
I wonder if our continuous seeking, searching, reading, pondering for to make contact with "our true power" is not our block to making that contact.
We say, and believe, that God is in our life...our life being that very proof. Yet every time a new or more cleverly put idea comes to us, we copy it to our long list of truths. We discover another mystic, saint, reclaimed sinner whose words have been published, and quote them endlessly...until we discover the writings of a new and different spiritual guru whose words are honest and true.
Just like those of the Sermon on the Mount.
The trouble with the Sermon is there are no ego-enticing promises. We quote the Sermon, e.g., agree with your adversary quickly, or resist not evil, and one of two things happen: eyes glaze over or tempers flare. Neither of which invite a loving feeling in response.
And there it is! There is the grace of God, the divine gift that keeps on giving...it is in the ego-threatened glazed eyes, temper up that we get our golden opportunity to practice the Sermon. Not by words but by our of-God response...being of God, we cannot plan it, practice it, rehearse it. We trust and respond with love....and very likely receive sneers or snarks back. Hey! Another golden opportunity...to live the Sermon.
Our changed mind has given over...our exchanged mind is taking hold. We can, if we choose, model: God is the love that gives itself away for the sake of more love. (Fr Richard Rohr)
Hard, ain't it hard, oh Lord, loving you. (Our reasoning mind)
Thank you.
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