That is one of my all-time favorite Fr Richard quotes, we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. It is a favorite because it never stops growing.
Today's Daily Meditation is an exercise in the making of mistakes as an acceptable part of our life. The difference between the material mind and the spiritual mind is clearly delineated here.
In the material world, we learn mistakes are mainly just Don't...period, end of lesson. We begin our climb in the spiritual world when we hear, then accept, the new lesson: When (not if) wrong, promptly admit it.
There it is, the key to right being birthed by being wrong...the involvement of another. How wrong can we feel when we're talking only to our bathroom mirror?
We read Fr Richard: It’s not about punishing one side, but liberating both sides. We learn: God's hand is in it when both sides come out the winner.
In that lesson, we begin a fuller realization of personal powerlessness, i.e., this is not something we on our own can do just because it is the right thing to do. No...this is another deep dip in surrendering to win.
We surrender our egoic need to come out on top, be first, never give in. In other words, we go against the basic rule of the reasoning mind.
Then we find that is just the first part...by surrendering, we give in not to another party but to the spiritual reality that the deed is already done for the benefit of both sides.
Love wins...impersonal love, the spiritual nature of love...there is no ego in the spiritual nature of love.
We cannot "get" impersonal love...no amount of praying, striving, seeking will bring impersonal love to us. It lives with the Father within us and is released by the Father's ever-flowing love when, unknowingly, we become ready.
We are brought to the deeper...the higher...understanding of we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong.
Thank you.
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