TRUST GOD...AND THAT IS ALL

Some kind of falling, what I call 'necessary suffering,' is programmed into the full journey….It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you!...Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey. -- Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," October 9, 2013.

Our spiritual growth now is solely concerned with personally living this good part of the human journey, necessary suffering. To the reasoning mind that is definitely a contradiction in terms. But who knew? None stuck in the reasoning mind can know that necessary suffering is the higher path to our Father within. 

Our reasoning mind does not have a clue, cannot know, how we experience that without regrets. The good part of our journey begins with the realization that whatever our regret du jour is, the remedy is an immediate thank you. 

Unknowing, we invite necessary suffering and earn spiritual ownership. Deprived of a voice, egoic mind fades, opening us to gratitude and our unthinkable answer: Trust God. Unknowing. Unquestioning. Trust God.

Trusting God is still more spiritual growth, and that is all.  

Thank you.