Hmmm...I ponder Fr Richard's message in relation to the difference between pain and necessary suffering. I have been comparing daily living as aided by shrinks vs inner spiritual growth.
A short and way-too-simplified thought, but it opened my mind: Shrinks are paid to help us through our human pains; spiritual growth comes without a dollar value and welcomes necessary suffering.
Fear not the human pain that comes with the dailies that shrinks help us to not take personally; welcome necessary suffering, the higher lessons of living for the benefit of others...of giving over, giving up, giving in with love and laughter.
Human pain is basically getting over ourself, with when wrong promptly admit it, or unselfish honesty, as our guide; spiritual growth comes with our choice to go to God for God and that is all...which cannot be landed by reason. Face it, the egoic mind is out of its element here.
My earlier years were all about me, my, mine and how to get me more. I was not an unhappy person, I just wasn't satisfied.
My life has come to be about giving over to the other...particularly the other I'm not enchanted with...and finding spiritual growth in love and laughter there.
It takes great inner freedom to go to God for God and that is all. We do not have to do this to make God love us. That is already taken care of.
Thank you.
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