TRUST...TO BECOME UNSELFED FOR OTHERS

'Amazing grace' is not a way to avoid honest human relationships. Rather, it’s a way to redo them—but now, gracefully—for the liberation of both sides. Nothing just goes away in the spiritual world; all must be reconciled and accounted for. - Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, Jully 22, 2024  

First, we are told to trust God, and our immediate response is "OK," with not a clue what or how or even why.

Then, we are taught that we must simply trust. And again...not a clue as to how, we are willing. Only, how do we learn to trust? 

That's when we hear that we must become unselfed. This time, we need to find out what unselfed even means with the SOSO...how? How do we become unselfed? 

Gratefully, we are seeking still more spiritual growth, so we are willing. The old adage we're in it to win it holds one hand as the other hand holds our nose, and we take a leap of faith. We land against what feels like a steel wall, only to learn that is what self-will feels like. 

We slide down that wall to puddle at the bottom, broken, wiped out. We want to curse and cry and beat our breast and wail...we've done it wrong again! Unbeknownst to us, we are getting why we must do it wrong to get it right...to become unselfed.

This process takes as long as it takes...only the invisible trust within knows the when and where for us. Trust earns its stripes when we are ready, and It lifts us up into a higher consciousness. 

Rarely do we realize this in the moment...life just becomes brighter. We know it and we show it and are amazed when others remark on a change in us. Without silently weighing the odds, we have become generally helpful...no biggie, just there as needed.  

We are learning a higher lesson: To become unselfed is to be Self'd...with the God of our understanding alive in our heart, our soul, our body and our brain. For others.

Thank you.