Tuesday, February 1, 2022

LOVE & LAUGHTER...GOD'S ANSWERED PRAYER

God’s self-revealing... intends not to give us easy answers and shortcuts to confidence and authority, but rather to reduce us, again and again, to the posture of wonder, humility, rebuke, and smallness in the face of the unknown. --  Brian McLaren, Fr Richard Rohr's School [Statement slightly altered.]

That sets the path to spiritual maturity. Knowing that unto doing that unto breathing that are ego's rough and rutted road to travel. Meaning that I, personally, get to...must...welcome God's self-revealing in the form of my being mocked, disbelieved, laughed at, cheated. 

Blinding flash of the obvious: Picture Joseph upon getting Mary's good news.

Whoa! Picture my reasoning mind gobsmacked. 

I am trying to grasp Joseph upon getting Mary's good news...and believing her. I recall my yesterday's turmoil over my suspicion of the less-than-wonderful behavior of my mentor and a friend toward me. 

Thank you. 

Here comes gratitude with her splinter of gold, proof that God has our back. My BFO lifts me (with a grin yet) out of my hurt self, i.e., ego obsessively justifying ways to shame my betrayers...while not displeasing God. 

Thank you. 

God’s self-revealing intends, with love and laughter, to reduce us, again and again, to the posture of wonder, humility, rebuke, and smallness in the face of the unknown. 

There. We are opened to the realization that, no matter our prayer, love and laughter are God's answer...according to me. 

Thank you.

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