Mary and Joseph walked in courage and absolute faith that their experience was true, with no one except God to reassure them they were right. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, December 25, 2023
Regarding my piercingly painful shoulder, amid the prayers I was shooting to God, I had a blinding flash of the obvious...namely, I am my healer.
I understood that all my prayers had been aimed out there, none within. I recalled how often I have said, written, thought, The Father lives within.
This is the time, the time of unknowing, that "courage and absolute faith" are called up...and way too often jettisoned for something that makes sense to the reasoning mind...where I find myself sliding in and out this morning.
With no treatment at all, except thank you, my shoulder is way better...hardly hurts, except slightly on occasion. That causes me pause...that which feels off may not be my shoulder, it may be consciousness-raising. Is that me just putting on airs? Or is my consciousness being raised?
I take heart from both the words and the timing of Fr Richard's article yesterday about Mary and Joseph's journey which may just be the painful way to higher consciousness:
Kingdom of God people...break through the small kingdoms of this world to an alternative and much larger world, God’s full creation....[Mary] had to let God lead her outside of her box of expectations, her comfort zone...They both had to rely on their angels!....Mary and Joseph walked in courage and absolute faith that their experience was true, with no one except God to reassure them they were right. -- Ibid.
Ah, with no one except God to reassure them they were right. According to me, passing the test of those words is true belief.
Thank you.
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