Our spirituality is how we hammer out the meaning of our encounter with God …: here, now, in this place, with these people, in the midst of this struggle. -- Murphy Davis comments on Matthew 25:31–46 from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, July 18, 2023
Spiritual, spirituality, has been much in my thoughts lately. Thoughts of exactly what that means to me personally bounced around freely, and led to my accepting spiritual as having a sense of peace and purpose.
I love that I got my definition just days before I read Murphy Davis' quote, above. It fits so well my daily encounters with God in the form of those with whom/that with which I have come in contact.
Today I am realizing my sense of peace and purpose is called upon in the instant I feel resistance...that determines how I hammer out the meaning of this encounter with God here and now.
I know this to be true but I recognize that for real by looking back...back through rues, regrets and remorses at where I have been, what I did, how each situation was handled. In the end, I can identify God's will, God's way without my having a spiritual clue at the time...and it was those dreaded remorses that got me righted inside.
The positive side of looking back is the outcome is there! And one hundred times out of one hundred, the outcome shows God's will, God's way for my benefit...and not even close to my original want.
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