[NOTE: This is the blog of Tuesday, October 5, 2021, which inadvertently was not posted until this morning.]
According to me, spiritual growth begins with learning to love. Not romantic love...not platonic love...not puppy love, albeit each is an inadvertent step toward nonresistance.
What I believe today, which is always subject to change when I'm doing it right, is we need to learn to know love as spiritual in nature, then to love from that place, already within us, waiting to be tapped. It feels ephemeral, gossamer...but at times so does God to me.
When we begin to grasp love as spiritual in nature our unknowing becomes the gift. We experience fully the art of changing our mind, of our ever-necessary forgiveness, of our own personal despair as the key that unlocks the door to the love we seek.
All require our acceptance that we must consciously lose our wants for our needs to be met...not until we lose does God win.
Two musts to learn and remember: One, hopeless despair is our angel in disguise which we cannot force into action, and two, our rues, regrets and remorses are our invitation to that angel who is fully aware when, not if, we are ready to accept the gift.
We don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. -- Fr Richard Rohr
Thank you.
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