According to Fr Richard, what human beings want is resurrection without death, answers without doubt, the conclusion without the process.
There it is, truth on the hoof.
Especially appealing to the egoic mind is the wish for answers without doubt. But, who's kidding whom? All three parts get an emphatic, albeit rueful, Yes!
Interestingly, resurrection without death gets the least mental time...probably because we have little consciously vested interest there. "Answers without doubt" is a daily as is "conclusion without the process." Death, I suspect, falls under the safety net of denial so we seldom visit there.
Our material world is all about self, self-interest. But isn't life itself? We beat ourself for being so self-centered but, be it by sex, society and/or security, what has more claim to our head and heart than a satisfied self? There's a paradox...it is spiritual lack that saves us by breaking us.
Our own quagmire...built by self, felled by self...holds the key for our redemption: Utter and complete powerlessness. It is only when the egoic mind is running on empty, and in defeat owns that, that we are freed...unknowingly freed...to begin our spiritual growth.
Fr Richard puts the cap on it with this truth that we must needs experience: Our love affair with God is always going on inside of us, almost in spite of us, and all we can do is start saying 'yes' and start recognizing and honoring it.
Unless and until we experience the power of "yes," a.k.a., "resist not," and recognize/honor a Power greater than ourself, we will stay stuck in self living in fear of not having enough...not enough food, friends, money.
Leave your [safety] nets and follow Me.
Thank you.
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