OUR INVITATION IS OUR WORKS

...the beginning levels of our consciousness are dualistic, while the later or deeper levels are non-dual and unitive. The only way to move from stage to stage is basically by some form of wounding, failure, or darkness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, June 20, 2024

That thought explains so much...nothing new, but it sure is an ain't that the truth! We have come to experience this but having an "authority" set it out in black-and-white commands respect...or thank you. 

That gives a deeper understanding...forgiveness, if you will...to our early years, when we had just begun to seek spiritual growth, and pretty much beat up on our self daily for "doing it wrong." In essence, for not having fully mature spiritual insight upon first wanting it. It is to love and laugh.

Fr Richard's post continues: Indeed, the goal of mature religion is to help us die before we die: die to our small or passing self so we can discover our Big Self.

That is the open secret of why we can, will and must continue to stumble, misspeak, show our bum in public. In our world, this is known as killing the ego by inviting our Higher Power to live within us/without us. Our invitation is our works...what we do imperfectly for others even with the Higher Self as our guide.

Whether we know it or not, our life today is dying to the small self so we can discover our Big Self. 

Thank you.