Our supreme purpose in life is not to make a fortune, nor to pursue pleasure, nor to write our name on history, but to discover this spark of the divine that is in our hearts. —Eknath Easwaran
Ah, to discover this spark of the divine that is in our hearts...indeed, that has been my goal in life for as long as I consciously knew I had a goal in life.
As Franciscan sister Ilia Delio has written: The journey inward requires surrender to this mystery in our lives, and this means letting go of our 'control buttons.' ..... it means being willing to surrender all that we have for all that we can become in God’s love; and finally, it means to let God’s love heal us of the opposing tensions within us.
The major discovery upon reading that and many other like words is agreeing with them is as far as that gets us...agreement. It is going beyond that agreement that finally leads us to surrender...to surrender our own idea of right and wrong. Whether we know it or not, to surrender is to do it right...give up all hope, flounder, fail...lose, in a word. That is how the seed, planted in our consciousness, takes root.
Spiritual growth kicks in when we stop talking those words and start doing them...taking our wobbly first steps, falling backward, asking for help, falling forward, asking...listening...changing.
We finally accept that God's ways are not our ways...that our ways must change. Changing our mind is all that is needed, yet our resistance to that takes...well, nonresistance. Surrender, again.
It is only in looking back that we can see all that flailing we did while trying to keep from losing was our path to winning...through God as he toted our sorry self home...to happy, joyous and free.
Trust...God is in surrender.
Thank you.
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