As I sipped my coffee this morning, I pondered that and wondered if it wasn't the human condition to desire to rise to great heights. I had to smile as I admitted that I long ago knew my "human condition," more often than not, to be my ego in a pretty dress, covering up...obliterating...my hard-won spiritual growth.
Clearly, the problem with seeking to rise to great heights is the invariability of the ego which attaches and sinks us like a stone in fetid water. Not to put too fine a point on it.
As I read a "Daily Meditation" of Fr Richard Rohr's, I was comforted to read about seeing with love...about seeing the less-than and the great with the same gaze, through the eyes of God.
There is an absolute connection between how we see God and how we see ourselves and the universe. Either we see the divine image in all created things, or we end up not seeing it very well at all.
Rising to great heights or resting in the deep makes no never-mind...there is no difference to our Now consciousness. We kid ourself when we say we seek to trust God...it is our own self we seek to trust.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, self-trust is the essence of heroism, but I need add for me self-trust is captured through the gaze of the God of my own understanding.
This is our sliver of gold, and per Fr Richard, we have to keep re-choosing it, being reminded of it, allowing it [for] this is the beginning of the inner journey of transformation.
Thank you.
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