DOING IT WRONG TO GET IT RIGHT

By denying their pain and avoiding the necessary falling, many have kept themselves from their own spiritual depths—and therefore have been kept from their own spiritual heights. -- Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, October 12, 2013

I do not doubt that "avoiding the necessary falling" has been the first cause and bane of most of us...or, specifically, of my own self. 

Slowly we learn that we must live that...even against our own inclination...in order to come to understand it, thus, to believe in it. Until we believe in it, we will continue to go to any lengths to avoid the necessary fallings.

Going to great lengths to avoid making a self-perceived mistake was our how-to for personal growth. There again, however, is the proof of doing it wrong is to get it right. It is doing it wrong that turns us to God so quickly...going down the right road in the wrong direction. I suspect that's how my mentor was gifted with showing our bum in public is also spiritual. 

When our primary goal is for still more spiritual growth, showing our bum in public does not fill the bill...at least to our reasoning mind. Ah...another example of God's will, God's way not being of this world...we must go beyond reason to God.

Again: By denying their pain and avoiding the necessary falling, many have kept themselves from their own spiritual depths—and therefore have been kept from their own spiritual heights. 

Thank you.