THE UNFATHOMABLE IS OUR SPIRITUAL GOLD

Those seeking to know God's will in order to do God's will...to think, walk and talk God's will...when they succeed often appear to be the loser. Or as Father Richard Rohr puts it, Their altruism is hard to understand by almost any psychological definition of the human person.

There comes a time when the psychological answer, albeit soothing to the reasoning mind, is unaligned with God's will. Psychologically, we're in it to win it; spiritually, everybody comes out the winner.

We find that a trusted friend (or a mental enemy, who almost invariably is an angel in disguise) is particularly necessary when trudging our road of happy destiny. Not someone to glibly unload our stuff on, but someone to accept the gift of our trust as we share with them. Ah, the transmutation of our garbage to gold. 

On the way out of self, then, is the holy sharing with a trusted friend of our shame- and-blame thinking. We have learned (too often) that when we simply "unload," we dump that load within, holding it to grow deeper. 

Comes again Fr Richard: I wonder if the only way to spiritually hold suffering—and not let it destroy us—is to recognize that we cannot do it alone. *** Shared struggle somehow makes us one—in a way that easy comfort and entertainment never can.

The Father and I and you are One...pets, too. 

Thank you.