The big and hidden secret is this: an infinite God seeks and desires intimacy with the human soul. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 22, 2023
Apparently, "the big and hidden secret" has shaken me from my toes to my nose. I keep pondering that paragraph in its entirety (see my 10/22/23 post), and here's me writing about it...yet again.
The big tell, I am getting a thorough cleansing. My nose is running like a faucet...I've been up for two hours, have gone through one full box of Kleenex and am starting on my third "nickel" pack. That is cleansing according to me.
As we have learned, and Rohr reminds us often, it's God in you that loves God. You, on your own, don't really know how to love God.
I don't resist that truth, but the in-depth description of God's love for us has been daunting, as in: mystery, tenderness, singularity, specialness, changing the rules 'for me,' nakedness, risk, ecstasy, incessant longing.
Face it, that reads like a trashy romance...of which I am a prime reader but not for my spiritual growth!
And further: [The big and hidden secret is this: an infinite God seeks and desires intimacy with the human soul.] Once we experience such intimacy, only the intimate language of lovers describes the experience for us....
I hear the echo of a favorite BFO: The hardest thing life will ever ask of us is that we change our mind.
Indeed.
Thank you.
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