DOING IT WRONG TO GET IT RIGHT

Blinding flash of the obvious: I see Gertrude and think "liar"...Gertrude sees me and thinks "liar."  To love the one we see is our charge. 

According to Rohr, "The first foundation of any true [spiritual] seeing is, quite simply, learning how to see and love what is." 

It seems my many spiritual truths that I quote so freely are coming home to roost...are requiring that I give them breath by living them. Enough with the thinking, quoting, reciting...apparently.

"'I see,' said the blind man."

That which I am seeing and living today, to my reasoning mind, is not good...but not wrong. There be the light. I know, if only from my eyebrows up, these convoluted feelings are in service to the Father within...who is doing the sorting out, it occurs to me. 

I trust it is the Father within doing the work because I feel no personal anxiety, no freight train    thoughts chugging, "What to do? What to do?" repeatedly in my brain. A calm curiosity is what I'm feeling, and who's kidding whom? That ain't my natural me. Ah, but I'm loving it...and grinning. 

There it is...proof I'm on the right road, heading in the right direction with not a clue as to the outcome. Except that it is already bringing me peace.

God loves me so much...you, too...and Gertrude.

Thank you.

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We come again to "What we see is always ourselves."