There is a great truth in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today; namely, All great spirituality is about letting go....True spirituality echoes the paradox of life itself.
The paradox of life itself, to me, came to me with the realization that there are two ways of seeing everything...materially or spiritually. Materially we are self centered; spiritually we are Self centered.
Being self centered is focused outward. It is not that we are wholly egotistical, or do not think at all about the well-being of others...no. It is that our mind is centered on the care and feeding, the safety and security, of our own self...others are side effects and get our attention, but peripherally.
Being Self centered is focused inward...on the higher Power within from which flows all good...no matter how life events look to us arriving. The less-than-wonderful turns out to be our pearl beyond price...purely by way of thank you...God's will, God's way, God's time.
It is what we do in the meantime...when the less-than-wonderful is taking its turn around our life. We make ourself available to others...the care and feeding of those in need, of animals in the street, of the sick, the lame, the elderly...the young.
The secret to "we make ourself available" is in our mindset, not in doing by overdoing.
We sit and wait on the Lord...by staying our mind on the higher Power within. The door is opening to intuition and inspiration. Not fathomable but true, one inspired thought comes and the act is done with the thought. We are moved on and fully realize only later...as we look back...how perfectly the less-than-wonderful worked out.
Living a self centered life is living to get; living an other-centered life is living to give...and brings us love and laughter.
Thank you.
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