The long journey of transformation leads us to ask new questions about our own goodness, and where goodness really lies; to recognize our own complicity with evil, and where evil really lies. It is humiliating. -- from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, October 13, 2022
I wonder if humiliation isn't God's gift divine...which to the reasoning mind is unwelcomed, dreaded and divine be gone with ya!
Humiliation is humility aborning, according to me, which does not make humility any less expensive...just more welcome spiritually. Which explains why the journey of transformation seems so long, so bumpy, so easy to question.
We have realized...often and oftener...that God's timetable and ours are two entirely different tables...God's is Now and ours is now!...meaning yesterday.
God's Way is "to my mind" upside down, backward, or just wrong. Learning unto accepting that "to my mind" no longer works, that our Now precludes me-thinking, includes receiving...from within. We find our feeling, say of "humiliation," comes in a different guise...ego's is "No, Never" but God's is "Yes, please, and thank you for this opportunity to grow."
The long journey of transformation that is our life today is all about inner change. The outside remains pretty much the same...a kinda glow may appear as we grow spiritually, or as ego deflates gradually. The Tell is our within is less, ever less, resistant to this invited life.
We will know we are on the right road, heading in the right direction, when we can feel humiliated and laughter bubbles up and we love it without thought or effort. We resist it not. Yes!
Thank you.
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