I connected with Rohr's statement seven years ago, and I still do. The good news is that between then and now, I have come to realize that is true for most humans...not that I can prove it, not that everybody feels it, not that it matters.
What matters to me is that it comforts me that Fr Richard and I feel it. Face it, companying with our own spiritual giants brings happy. How could it not? Isn't happy, or gratitude, the impetus, the seed at the core of our spiritual growth?
The first time we shared a less-than-wonderful fact about ourselves, it felt like a monumental risk. Our fear of the response we might get kept us silent too long.
The wonder then is that the response we got was utterly irrelevant to us...the honest and willing release of our secret shame to a trusted 'nother was likely our first spiritual experience.
Those of us who know it as such are blessed beyond measure...those of us who do not know it as such are blessed beyond measure. Both sides have nothing but spiritual growth ahead of us. The timing is between ourself and Providence.
What is as true today as it was the first time I ever admitted it is, "I say it so much better than I live it."
I expect that will be true three days after I am dead. The sliver of gold is that's what keeps us seeking still more spiritual growth. Why seek what we think we already have?
Thank you.
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