OUR INNERMOST DESIRE IS ALREADY TRUE

Pray always; pray unceasingly. (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

That's another of the Bible's impossible-to-understand demands. It is literally impossible to pray unceasingly if we're praying as we were taught to pray...on our knees, hands folded, etc. Fortunately, we've come a long way from there, but we still need direction.

Here comes Fr Richard to clear the way: We can pray unceasingly if we find the stream and know how to wade in its waters. The stream will flow through us; all we have to do is keep choosing to stay there.

There's the key...find the stream...then through our continuing spiritual growth we know how to wade in its waters. The best part of the promise is that the stream will flow through us...the hardest part, all we have to do is keep choosing to stay there. 

Choosing to stay there, we come to find out...slowly, slowly...is learning to stay in the Now. From our first inner desire to stay in the Now, our consciousness is being raised. We can never think our way there, we need only build trust by praying thank you...and repeatedly getting out of our own way by getting out of our own head. 

We know today that we have found the stream, we know how to wade in its waters, the stream does flow through us, we do choose to stay there...but we only learn this by looking back. 

Looking back, we see our original regret has become our pearl beyond price...seeded by remorse, grown by prayerful tears, gifted by God's will, God's way.   

Everything is a gift...rues, regrets, remorses? Our pearls beyond price. Thank you! 

True encounter with Christ liberates something in us, a power we did not know we had, a hope, a capacity for life, a resilience, an ability to bounce back when we thought we were completely defeated, a capacity to grow and change, a power of creative transformation. —Thomas Merton, He Is Risen

There. That is our innermost desire and is already true...whether we know it or not.

Thank you.