[The] seemingly negative way of the cross could not, and would not, be wrong....Many say pain is physical discomfort, but suffering comes from our resistance, denial, and sense of injustice or wrongness about that pain. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," April 4, 2022
Spiritual truth came to me feeling like a reversal of rational thought. I called it "mirror vision," and I did not know this was acceptable until I read it described by a spiritual authority, probably Goldsmith or Fr Richard, as just that, "mirror vision."
The Sermon on the Mount certainly fills that bill. When first I read if someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek, I balked...then I read resist not evil and I really balked. Face it, the Sermon does not make a lick of sense to the reasoning mind. Yet, with my own thinking put on hold, that very Sermon has birthed my go-to...the Steps upon which my experience grows me to a higher place deeper.
Then there is Thaddeus Golas' "Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment" wherein he writes that we must go beyond reason to love. Does that make sense on first read? or second, third or fourth for that matter?
Not without a spiritual bent, intuition, or an authentic crash and burn experience do we even consider going beyond our own thinking processes...that which we were taught as good and right is good and right, enough said.
Resist not evil, going beyond reason, et al., come down to trust. When we quit fighting the words and become willing to trust the meaning, spiritual growth takes root. The root is trust.
God is not in yesterday, God is not in tomorrow, God is here Now. The way to trust God, the Father within, is to let him Now.
People waste so much time in seeking to work out what they see. I declare to you that in the seeing My purpose, all is done. -- "God Calling," April 14
Thank you.
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