We’re finally indestructible when we recognize that the thing which could destroy us is the very thing that could enlighten us....We can receive the miracle of new life by embracing our own difficulties. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, April 21, 2022
Believing this, the miracle of new life, does not make it a living truth within us.
We cannot live it by learning it...by memorizing the words, quoting them to ourself and to others. It can only be internalized unto living it by experiencing the pain, the shame, the embarrassment that we so diligently pray to be relieved of.
That is the nature of surrender, a hard word that shouts "resist!" But surrender we must to get to acceptance, a soft, inviting word...a virtual lullaby to our senses.
We must needs walk every step of the way through the pain to ownership, knowing it came by invitation only. Finally we regret it not, we accept.
Now we can love and laugh as we pass it on. We are unresistant to others' unbelief, even rejection...we are humbled in fact. For that, too, is of God.
Thank you.
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