BELIEVE, TRUST, DO...PRAY THANK YOU

From Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, June 7, 2022:  A transformed person does see things in a much more expanded and compassionate way. St. Paul calls it 'a spiritual revolution of the mind.' . . . . . You must contact this Immensity! You must look back at what seems like your life from the place of this Immensity. You must know that this Immensity is already within you. The only thing separating you from such Immensity is your unwillingness to trust such an utterly free grace, such a completely unmerited gift.

When Meister Eckhart's thank you came into my consciousness, this Immensity was mine...I knew and I knew I knew, and I knew this was not of me but of God.

For ever so long I have eyebrows-up believed that. I have been aware, too, that as long as I continue to look for It out there (praying to get), It will not be manifest in my life...in short, I won't have It. It is already within...believe, trust, do.

Ah, and there be the immensity of the egoic mind for which that, too, give thanks. Without the egoic mind continuing to deny that a power greater than itself lives within, the natural person would likely rest on its surety...its surety of knowledge. Which is a good thing but not a sure thing, i.e., the surety it fears to live. 

 

The only surety is God which is only available Now. There is no God in yesterday, there is no God in tomorrow, for yesterday and tomorrow are of the reasoning mind. There is only God Now...here, Now. No seeking for more, no regrets for less...just gratitude for the grace of God, Now.

And if our Now brings poverty, dementia, left all alone...thank you for in those reasoning mind fears we find God's Immensity. It is written that Lazarus was dead, yet arose and walked. Why not believe that? Why not trust that? How else does positive thinking arise and walk? 

Our life through our actions follows our thinking. More things are wrought for good than this world dreams of, to paraphrase Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

It is already within...believe, trust, do...and pray thank you.

Amen.