The experience of God’s love means...extending to others forgiveness and approval and acceptance...it even means loving our enemies. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, August 18, 2023
My Backstory: I am doing what I can appropriately do, no manipulation, nothing nasty...but my thoughts are slinging slop and justifying it. My innards keep twisting, always trying to get free by nailing another to my judgment cross. Sometimes I am trying to figure out the why of it but always what I can say to top them to stop them. Not to stop them with love, but to top them with the same disdain I am resisting. The disdain that I know binds me to self.
In my morning quiet time, I prayed thank you, and acknowledged that My Backstory is assuredly God's gift to me personally. It is for this I caught the truth of resist not evil...of turn the other cheek. We must catch the truth before we can walk it...but walk it we must to prove it by our own spiritual growth.
To know spiritual truth only from our eyebrows up is to stay stuck in the reasoning mind...not walking it, just talking it. Kinda like the Texas saying, "All hat, no cattle."
We must go beyond reason to love. I choose to believe that every time that quote comes to mind it moves inchwardly deeper into my Soul.
Thank you.
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