According to Fr Richard Rohr, "If we can truly love this, whatever this is, it becomes the gateway to everything....We have to find our capacity to see, to love, to accept, to forgive, and to delight in one thing."
Well now. Finding our capacity to see, to love, to accept, and to delight in one thing is an enticing prospect...but I home in on focusing on our capacity to forgive. A frisson of dread runs down my spine. Who's kidding whom? If we have to find our capacity to forgive, something we find not right...wrong, and personally wrong into the bargain...usually has us in its clutches.
I often recall my friend who made a decision to be a forgiving person...and certainly appeared to be able to live there. I finally accepted that when I try to be a forgiving person, invariably in my failure I wind up making myself miserable...and must needs turn to God for help. I try to remember to start with God now.
It is interesting, apparently a human condition, that the more we focus on A, Z is in our face nattering...when we seriously try to be a forgiving person, unforgivable comes begging for attention. Try for loving...hateful blooms.
I take that as the egoic mind going up against the spiritual...and winning. Winning every time until we give up the fight. Until whatever our self-determined objective is has been loosed and let go, we will be in a losing position...and blaming and shaming others, or God.
When, without thought, we strive for the perfect objective which is of God, we know peace, we love, we find joy...and forgiveness is winning.
Thank you.
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