For me for today, subject to change by God and by grace:
My suffering: It seems the more I live the Sermon by denying my wants, the more others perceive me through my deepest fear.
Fr Richard Rohr: It seems there is an inherent negative energy or resistance from all of us when we are suffering, and it is in those moments that we are invited to a more generous response. It is actually the necessary dying that the soul must walk through to go higher, farther, deeper, or longer.
My interpretation: There is an inherent resistance from us to suffering (our fear realized), and it is in those moments when our fear is realized that we are invited to welcome it with our thank you.
Fr Richard: That is the seemingly negative way of the cross...not from resistance, denial, or a sense of injustice or wrongness about our pain, but by walking through it in welcome.
Old, still gold, reliable: Hug it...kiss it on the lips...let it go.
Thank you.
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