REASON TRANSMUTED...GOD'S WILL, GOD'S WAY

All that we hope for in this world cannot be realized without our transformation and participation. If we truly seek the will of God, then we must seek the path of love that will lead us to truth and from truth to freedom. -- Ilia Delio

The path of love is nonresistance...resist not evil (Matthew 5:39) are probably the words that led me to my ongoing transformation and participation in still more spiritual growth. I resisted them until nonresistance won.

I have no doubt that those three words, resist not evil, are more resisted than almost any other words in our spiritual growth.  They do not...cannot...make a lick of sense to the reasoning mind. Ah, but they are the key to our opened mind that allows us to go beyond reason to love.

According to me, it is reason itself that guards the gates of Heaven, that ties us to self. Reason alone gives us our need for a sense of self-protection. Hug it and kiss it and let it go are not welcomed words to the reasoning mind. 

Here's the hook...reason, too, needs to be loved. It is reason that resists resist not evil. Once we hug it and kiss it and let it go, we are raised out of reason-reliance. 

Raised out of reason-reliance, reason is transmuted by grace and becomes acceptance or God's will, God's way. 

Thank you.