Continuing to ponder spiritual in nature, I'm thinking that finding the good in a less-than-good situation is heading in the right direction.
Fr Richard Rohr has written, God is to be found in all things, even and most especially in the painful, tragic, and sinful things, exactly where we do not want to look for God.
Our reasoning mind seeks peace, according to our definition of peace, and painful, tragic, and sinful do not fit our definition...are not even minimally acceptable.
Trying to define peace of mind...ah, there's a minefield. Face it, everyone's definition of peace of mind is inherently and intensely personal...beginning, as it must, with our own peace, our own mind. That, of course, brings us smack dab up against the forever challenge...the need to change our mind.
That is a forever need when we're going for still more spiritual growth for that is the crux of raised consciousness. Spiritual in nature necessarily begins with our raised consciousness.
Think of raised consciousness as an unresistant mind in the midst of trial, travail and personal pain. Then the sinkhole opens; i.e., getting that unresistant mind, that mind at peace. There's our ego's hook, it's gotcha!
We will know the right answer, i.e., loose it and let it go (John 11:44), long before we are living there. Recognizing that...and with that, realizing that time is on God's side...and so are we...brings thank you riding in on its white buffalo.
We are peaced.
Thank you.
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