Suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego. It has to be led to the edge of its own resources, so it learns to call upon its Deepest Source. Some might call this the God Self, the True Self, the Christ Self, the Buddha Self, or just the soul. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditations, April 28, 2017
I love the above with its assurance that our suffering calls forth our own inner self, our soul. Reading about suffering often brings a Yes! to mind when one is not suffering. Yet...when suffering is upon me, invariably I'll be humming the old '50s song, "Please Release Me, Let Me Go."
We need all the spiritual information we can get...and we're often still amazed at the many different people and places that qualify for our spiritual information to see us through periods of suffering.
It is staying in the information-gathering stage that stays our spiritual progress. Getting a blinding flash of the obvious rings so right and true and beneficial and of God that it is way too easy to stay there...basking in the self-qualified spiritual light.
When we go forward, often to find we're moving in the wrong direction, all that spiritual information comes to our aid. The choice is ours...to love and laugh, i.e., resist not, or to suffer ego's resistance, self-pity leading the way...until acceptance hugs our resistant mind, and we walk freer.
The truth breaks slowly that the blinding flash of the obvious is in general the green light...to Go. Move. Trust!
It matters not how slow we go; it is that we step forward, relying on our long-ago decision to trust God's will, God's way.
Thank you.
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