Sunday, August 13, 2023

RESIST NOT...LOVE, LAUGH AND LET GOD

[W]e experience the universal being of God.... If we know where history is going and what God is leading us toward; if we know what our lives could and should be, why are we wasting time with all this violence and all this stupidity? -- Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, August 13, 2023

When we have worked so diligently...studied, analyzed, pondered daily...to do the Sermon, it is a  puzzlement that our first thought after we hear of Putin's path to perdition or of the Trumpist trumpeting is, in effect, kill 'em! Do away with them! Shut them up...shut them down...by their own violent means!

That is to participate in the unraveling of our spiritual growth. That is the crime against God. If we are not incrementally moving forward spiritually, we are moving backward...and at warp speed. 

Knowing right and doing right are two entirely different things until we are doing right without hesitation, justification or ought-to loudly whispering in our ear. Repeatedly reciting I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also becomes our block. 
 
We know to resist not evil but way too often it takes a tanker to move us there...all the while praying for God to do something. He has already...it is ours now to follow suit. 

There is the sliver of gold: To follow suit is to trust God and do something about something.

We turn the other cheek by thinking, feeling, doing a loving something. No matter how small the something, that is the opening through which God flows for the benefit of all. 

God's hand is in it when all sides win.

Thank you.

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