Once we are awakened to love as the lifelong purpose of our hearts, then feeling love for all the world becomes the meaning—and greatest joy—of living. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," December 17, 2021
Free-floating thought: To love is to move forward, toward those from whom we feel resistance...to detach from our own resistance, to open our own resisting heart.
That is one fine free-floating thought...it is the want-to that makes the doing so difficult.
Right off the top of my head, I can think of a couple people I want no truck with. The fear of extending...even mentally...love to them sends dread hot-footing across my egoic mind. Both of those I resist are good and decent people, or close enough to cause no fear of burning in hell's fires. Simply put, they're just not "my people."
Ah, here's me, all set to write about the glories of love and loving...impersonal love, universal love, love not of the egoic mind. I've got the words and oh so many more...it should put me to the blush. But, face it, I don't wanna, so it ain't gonna happen.
That is flatfoot thumbing my nose at fate. "It ain't gonna happen" is code inviting karma to deal me one of life's "blessings." The couple I am resisting aren't necessarily going to be in my life by this time tomorrow, but I have planted the seed...my own, i.e., my resisters or someone even more so, will come to me. I can count on it.
And that is the good news. It's like fear being a good thing...nothing turns us to God faster than fear, so get grateful for it. Knowing that I have sent the invitation for my personal hairballs to visit, I need only pray my thank you.
The door has been opened for me to experience still more spiritual growth...and then resist not that which comes flowing to me for it is from Me and for my own benefit. We cannot know the time, the place, the how, and we need not know...when we stay ourself in gratitude.
This I know: I will fail. This I trust: My failure is God intervening in my life in my behalf.
Thank you.
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