NECESSARY SUFFERING...RESIST NOT...LOVE

It’s the nature of life to circle around the smaller and smaller self, to take fewer and fewer risks, and to never go outside our own comfort zone of people who are just like us.... Every day is a lesson in love, learning how not to bind up ourselves and our neighbors, but in fact to free ourselves and others. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, December 1, 2023

We need constantly nurture...to hold dear...the reminder that we live spiritual growth not to avoid necessary suffering but to experience necessary suffering.

Our need is to experience that, not just to know it by thinking it, talking it, writing about it, but actually in our soul experience it. That cannot be done from the eyebrows up. Mainly because most of us have never truly grasped our soul as a working part of us. There's the proverbial Catch-22.

Proving our soul is akin to proving our God. We believe...ah, but proving it gets right dicey. 

It's after the fact that we have our proof, our so-called miracle. Before the fact, we have our prayer, thank you, then we trust...or hope and call it trust.

Here's the lesson...necessary suffering is the act of exchanging our mind, the loose it and let it go part. We are coming to the realization that the material world is not where our peace is...the full realization of which we'll likely not get in this time and place.

Changing our mind is of the material world, the world of right/wrong; exchanging our mind is of the spiritual world, the world of nonresistance or love. 

Love through nonresistance is that for which we are diligently seeking every day in every way...whether we know it or not.

Every day is a lesson in love, learning how not to bind up ourselves and our neighbors, but in fact to free ourselves and others. -- Ibid.

Thank you.