WE HAVE ONLY JUST BEGUN

To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we need to have three spaces opened within us—and all at the same time: our opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body. That is the work of spirituality. — Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, July 20, 2024

There it is, the definition of crash and burn: three spaces opened within us—and all at the same time. 

Those three spaces are not within our conscious power...they come from a Power greater than our self. They come without conscious invitation...we can pray till our face falls off and naught will come of it for those prayers are born in the reasoning mind for the peace of the reasoning mind...primarily to avoid the spiritually necessary crash-and-burn. 

There be God's hand: Crash-and-burn is the gates ajar, entry into the counterintuitive...beyond reason. We must go beyond reason to love. 

The reasoning mind is all about get not give...how to get security, protection, abundance, personal love, peace of mind. 

To surrender our self to healing is to change our mind...which, we are slow to learn, is God's job. 

The spiritual mind is about giving impersonal love, the love of God, and that is all...because that is all.   

First lesson learned is that for us in this life neither way is a forever path, we mix and mingle get and give as we seek still more spiritual growth. Gratefully we cling to Fr Richard's we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong. 

The eye-opener is proof of the truth about self-determined objectives...that they are not of God. Our prayer was actually a self-determined demand. As in, Snap to it, God...heal me already. Oh yeah, please and thank you.

The good news is we have just begun the work of spirituality.  

God loves us so much.

Thank you.