The purest form of spirituality is to find God in what is right in front of you—the ability to accept the sacrament of the present moment. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," April 24, 2022
Ponder that for a minute or two and, amazingly, several words pop that fit the "purest form of spirituality." For instance, nonresistance or surrender or acceptance...and acceptance is the only one that doesn't sound to the egoic mind as either punishing, surrender, or just wrong, nonresistance.
But, stripped of the fancy sounding "sacrament" of the present moment, it becomes clear that is what we do...the "we" who seek still more spiritual growth, and the "we" who just seek peace of mind (unaware or uncaring that, too, is still more spiritual growth).
We learn early on, back when it seemed we were met with an "oh-no!" hourly, to turn that fear-fact around, look at it in every possible way until we find a sliver of gold. We then hang onto that sliver of gold for it will lead us free...free to find God in what is right in front of us.
The quoted text goes on: The sacramental principle is this: 'Begin with a concrete moment of encounter, based in this physical world, and the soul universalizes from there, so that what is true here becomes true everywhere else too.'
Now we get to the meat of the matter. We begin with a flat fact in our own life, say our battle unto surrender unto acceptance of an incurable, progressive disease.
When we surrender, that transmutes unto acceptance, and the soul universalizes from there...so what is true here, peace, becomes peace everywhere else too.
We have ceased fighting everything and everybody...and we have peace, the pearl beyond price.
Thank you.
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