WE ARE ONE

The issue of our suffering is we think we are what’s wrong with us. It’s the idolatry of our shame. Reflected in our Lord's eyes, we see our true face before we were born, hidden in God forever.  [Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," November 18, 2021 (my paraphrase)] 

I read Fr Richard's statement and felt utterly gobsmacked for it spelled out exactly what I had come to believe all those years ago...and that still daily proves to me to be true.

Stripped down to its bare knuckles, my "B.C." is "before conception," where free will lives and enables us to make our life's personal choices as we are prepared for life. 

Back in the day, God ever with me, within me, saw me through where my choices took me, even unto crash and burn, that being the self-evident turning point of my life where I was reborn into God consciousness.

This very day, God ever with me, within me, sees me through the dailies where the less than self-evident happens where our walking around attitude about life itself is determined. Without a Higher Power to follow, we will either suffer and assume all blame and shame as ours, or we will suffer and assume all blame and shame as yours. Our life without a higher purpose becomes a search to prove whichever we chose as true...and we do mix and match.  

With regard to personal relationships especially, when we find ourself in resistance unto disagreement with another, we are in conflict with our Source within, our own Self. Until we get right with our Source, either we will project our failings onto another, call him responsible and obsess on ways to make her pay, or we will activate our victim-self and wallow in the sweet agony of self-pity.  

Even declaring our ownership...or "our side of the street" ownership...does not heal our conflict. We find...repeatedly...that declaring is a long way from owning. We only own it by letting it go with the love that comes from our Source...our inner core, God's hidey-hole. 

This is a long and lonely journey, with no shadowing from our thoughts, until a blinding flash of the obvious opens us to God's reality: We are not now nor were we ever alone; there is not now nor was there ever disagreement; we are not now nor were we ever wrong...or right.

We are One. God is.

Thank you.