When I was ten years old and my brother was twelve, he became ill...and died three months later. That day he became ill the two of us spent together. The happenings of that day, or my impression of the happenings, became imprinted in me and have dictated my life's patterns.
It has taken fifty years of digging, realizing, getting free, remembering more, digging, realizing...there is no cheap spiritual growth for which I have become grateful.
One of the pearls in digging to get free of my self-determined objective, i.e., what I saw as my problem, is that I was freed of a gazillion little parts of me I did not even know were there, much less a problem for me. The Father knows our needs.
This morning's blinding flash of the obvious: My 1948 imprint was already lifted by its need to be. The Father knows our needs.
My realization of that now frees me to live that, forget that, remember that, live that, forget, remember, live, forget, remember...and that is when I am doing it right.
Researcher and therapist Dr. Alane Daugherty suggests: The force of deep love, compassion and other heartfelt emotions unite our brain, our heart, and all of the cells in our body....Devotional practices have opened believers’ hearts for millennia, and we now understand the mind-body-heart connection within us in a deeper way.. (From Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," December 18, 2021)
When I read we now understand the mind-body-heart connection within us in a deeper way, I wanted to jump up and shout...but it's early and my coffee hasn't taken hold yet. Oh, but my heart is happy.
Our Father not only knows our needs, he gets them done...with us within us and perfectly!
Thank you.
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