The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. -- "I shall not want" is my Shepherd's promise that I have enough. I shall never not have enough because the Lord is my Shepherd. I put myself in jeopardy when I let my egoic mind take over shepherding me. I have the tools to turn me back to the God of my understanding, and I use them...gratefully.
Our lessons are primarily spiritual today...and we note "less" is the key in "lessons." Lessons are ever smaller, shrinking from the exaggerations of humans, into the pinpoint of God's will, God's way. It seems everything must get smaller, or right-sized, to encompass the immensity of God's love.
All of our rues, regrets and remorses are our 6s/7s...for me, that includes my beloved brother Paul, his illness and his death. All of us...everyone, saints and sinners and plain wrapper humans...are the 6s/7s God perfects as we give over, give up and give in.
The Way...looks like failure. In fact, we could say [it] is about how to win by losing, how to let go creatively, how the only real ascent is descent. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, February 19, 2023
Thank you.
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