In the early Christian Scriptures, the message seems to have been heard in great part by people on the bottom. Those who are outside or at the edges of the system understand, while those who are inside or at the center are the ones who crucify. [Edited] —Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, July 22, 2023
In general, we who are spiritual seekers arrive broken, praying to be "fixed" according to our idea of fixed.
When our prayers are answered just as we prayed, we feel grateful...until a sense of something ain't right edges its way into our consciousness.
Ego begins to do our thinking for us...dissatisfied seeps into our life. Too soon, ego and dissatisfied are married up and driving us.
Very simplistically, this is the point where reasoning mind and spiritual mind split...as in the reasoning mind going for material, the spiritual mind going deeper, seeking higher.
It takes time and a lot of time for the way to become clearer, and we get a glimmer of light: God's will, God's way works together for our good. Spiritual mind leads, leaning on the likes of the Sermon; material mind follows, doing the digging to clear away the detritus of ego, which forever legislates for self.
Blinding flash of the obvious: Our ego and its self-centered work is the bane that we must welcome.
We have ceased fighting everything and everybody; we welcome all with our thank you.
We recognize that it is our fear of powerlessness that turns us to God, but priceless is the realization that nothing turns us to God faster than fear. There, the hidden pearl beyond price.
We feel fear, we pray thank you...we mean it.
Thank you.
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