THE REST OF OUR LIFE TASK

[To know] God is largely a matter of letting go of resistance to what the moment offers or to quit clinging to a past moment. It is an acceptance of the full reality of what is right here and now. It will be the task of our whole lives. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, August 29, 2023

That paragraph is an apt description of what to me is the most important instruction in the Sermon...i.e., resist not evil. 

Until we "get" that, we are living on the material plane of life. To go deeper to the higher level...well, resist not. Who's kidding whom? To resist not evil is to resist not...period. Face it, who's going to resist good, abundance, happiness?

Learning to live those three words are, to quote Fr Richard, the task of our whole lives. This is the deeper way to a higher way of living...of thinking, feeling, doing, being...that physical effort cannot touch. Ah, but we do not resist not by sitting by the side of the road, hoping for happy. We resist not by learning the lesson of, say, turn the other cheek...by living the Sermon.

The whole of the Sermon of the Mount is a virtual how-to booklet for a way to give over, give up, give in with no "what about me?" playing in our head. We have earned our trust in God, that God has our back. Without thought, we trust that all parties will come out happy, joyous and free.  

Living that trust which we have earned is the rest of our life task.

Thank you.