THE COUNTERINTUITIVE LOVE OF GOD

The turning point into my gutbucket belief in God was when, almost unbeknownst to me, I accepted that God's will, God's way, was counterintuitive to the reasoning mind. The reality being it is only counterintuitive to the egoic mind...it is right-on right to the Spirit.

Realizing that we live spiritual growth not to avoid necessary suffering but to experience necessary suffering was my breakthrough. 

Whoever read the Sermon, not others' interpretations but the one in the KJV, and thought "What great advice!" or "I can't wait to do this!" 

Face it, the Sermon itself is counterintuitive. For instance, "If someone slaps you upside your head, turn the other cheek" is not inviting to the reasoning mind...and a tish dicey to the spiritually inclined.

Comes our dawning. A peaced Soul is a side bennie... and the gates ajar in open invitation for us to go beyond reason. There it is, the Sermon's Open Sesame in the words of Thaddeus Golas, We must go beyond reason to love.

By the by, the rest of the quote explains in full the suggested injunction that we cease fighting everything and everybody: Go beyond reason to love - it is safe. It is the only safety. Love all you can, and when you are ready all will be shown to you. 

Note "when you are ready." We get ready by relying not on our reasoning mind, but by ceasing fighting, by loving the unlovable, by kissing the leper, by loving our self as the fool. Getting ready is the low-key excitement of the spiritual life.

The best part is that when, not if, we go beyond reason to love, we are living God's will, God's way.

Thank you.