The spiritual experience is about trusting that, when we stop holding ourselves, Inherent Goodness will still uphold us. Many of us call that God, but it isn’t necessary. It is the trusting that is important. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, December 16, 2022
According to me, the way of the Lord is counterintuitive, as the way down always teaches us.
The consequences of the way down...which we try with a will to avoid, slide by, justify, deny...is our self-selected teacher. Face it, without the consequences, it is unlikely we would accept the necessity of giving over.
We give over, give up, give in for some time before our eyes are lifted...before we trust that God's better way is not wimping out.
It is our choice of how we see our life...through our ego's eyes and whine or through God's eyes and shine. That choice is, per Fr Richard, the foundation of any true religious seeing...learning how to see and love what is.
Who- or whatever is the source of our resistance...our spouse, our friend or foe, our job...is to be met in its reality with thank you. There it is...the call for still more spiritual growth.
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. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, October 29, 2023
Thank you.
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