The reasoning mind finds it difficult...face it, well-nigh impossible...to accept in our walking-around world, that already we are all that we seek. Mainly because our idea of that which we seek is pretty, polished and perfect...uh-oh, the nesting place for resentments.
Our difficult-to-perceive is that to God, apparently, the rough, unfinished and tear-soaked self we're trying so hard to hide is his perfect work. It is our mistakes, errors in judgment, occasional downright selfishness that we need to experience in readying us to receive his guidance...Love.
Fr Richard has said that enlightened people know that their life has been given to them as a sacred trust.
We know we are more enlightened than we ever dreamed for ourself, but knowing it and showing it has a lengthy stretch between them.
Comes now enlightenment to pay our dues: That lengthy stretch is our pearl beyond price, only we rarely realize it until after the fact...very rarely and long after for most of us. As we look back, we can welcome our rues, regrets and remorses as the slivers of gold that God walked us through and over.
There it is...the worst shall be first, or the birth of gratitude.
Thank you.
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