There is no mention of any moral worthiness, achievement, or preparedness..., only humble trust and surrender....If we ourselves try to “manage” God or manufacture our own worthiness by any perfection or performance principle whatsoever, we will never [have a raised consciousness], but only more of ourselves. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, December 18, 2023 (paraphrased)
That paragraph holds the secret to living a turned-over life...surrender, I lose, begets trust, we win.
The basic need for those who seek still more spiritual growth is the gutbucket acceptance that God's will, God's way is our forever solution. That acceptance opens God's will, God's way as counterintuitive to our will and way, and the human condition no longer prevails.
Surrender means we lose. We must lose, fail, let go of any perceived want masquerading as a need, no matter how good and true...even holy...we believe it to be.
It is only by losing that we rise again, lifted by a Power greater than our self. It is in the process of being lifted up, the long and arduous process, that trust is born within us. Long and arduous becomes our pearl beyond price...not by self-will, but by God's grace.
That brings to mind the saying that the hardest thing life will ever ask of us is that we change our mind. We have learned that we cannot change our mind on a want-to...that, too, is God's to do.
So the difference between [material mind and spiritual mind] is the difference between striving for a self-determined objective and for the perfect objective which is of God. -- Anonymous (slightly reworked for clarity)
Thank you.
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