It doesn’t lie in our power to make these insights happen, but here’s the key. We can freely choose to assume the stance that offers the least resistance to being overtaken by the fire that we cannot make happen. -- James Finley, Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, April 8, 2024
I am reminded of my BFO yesterday about loving God with all my heart, soul, body and brain. I noted that the brain is last, and that last is the first place we speak from.
What we need do is sit in silence to absorb the wonder of it... of our heart full of love flowing over into our soul into our body with the brain slowly awakening to the wonder of it...and wanting to talk about it. Uh-oh.
No wonder we tend toward addlepated when we're going for a spiritual life...too often we speak from our intellect totally bypassing our Father within which is ready, willing and able to speak from our heart.
Silence...sit in silence. Trust is born, bred and grows in silence. Thomas Merton said it beats in our very blood whether we want it to or not.
We have to look for the thread of sensitivity to such insights and decide that we’re going to live this way. It’s a kind of obediential fidelity that nobody can see but it matters more than everything. -- Ibid.
Thank you.
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