THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMATION

This movement of leaving and returning, forward and back, is the process of transformation. - Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, July 31, 2022

Well...isn't that interesting! Stripped down to its bare knuckles, "forward and back" is us having a new idea, trying it, being mistaken, trying again, screwing up, trying again and again and again, and finally  surrendering unto acceptance. Voila, transformation.

We don't get to transformation by book-learning or by sharing deep talk...seeking how-to without actually doing it. To mangle an old saying, Those who can...do; those who can't...teach. 

If we're still beating ourself over old remorses and/or new mistakes, we may have missed the fork in the road and wandered off into the forest. As long as we don't make our home there in the forest, we can pray thank you, make a U-bie, and try again. And again. Etc.

We've heard the word, the more we resist, the more it persists, but the human condition is such that to not resist feels wrong, and our reasoning mind can back that up unto infinity. At some point, and it takes as long as it takes, we must needs go beyond our reasoning mind for our solutions...as in, trust that our perfect solution is of God

Learning to do God's will sometimes feels like we're trying to go forward by crawling through a duststorm backward...all the while trying not to think about a reasoning mind being an educated mind, and education counts for something for Pete's sake. Sometimes it is even right. 

Another old adage for our reasoning mind's comfort, Life's a crapshoot...deal with it. 

Still more spiritual growth for our Soul's comfort, Go beyond reason to love.

Comes the time when the reasoning mind's comfort is of no nevermind, and spiritual growth is ours without thinking. There. The pearl beyond price.

Thank you.