On awakening, I almost immediately went to my attack mind to continue the egoic dance with my nemesis du jour...namely, how s/he is wrong, and I am right.
Then I read my Rohr Daily Meditation, and I knew the following paragraph could've been dedicated to me:
The first foundation of any true religious seeing is, quite simply, learning how to see and love what is [e.g., our nemesis du jour]. Contemplation is meeting reality in its most simple and direct form unjudged, unexplained, and uncontrolled!...If we don’t know how to love what’s right in front of us, then we don’t know how to see what is.
For each seeming nemesis, that which ticks us off regularly or rarely, we need to learn how to see through our Inner Power's eyes and to love what we see.
Almost assuredly we will need to make a deeper dive into the meaning of love...to us personally. Like the word spirituality, which I had to grapple with to get a true meaning for me, the meaning of love changes...it deepens at a higher level, and we need to do likewise.
I'm guessing this is a rest-of-life proposition which is an altogether good thing. Face it, it keeps us turned to God the majority of the time...some days a lot, some days barely 51% but that's the majority of the time.
Praise God for the gifts of grace and gratitude...now to live them.
Thank you.
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