We cannot really imagine love, much less pass it on, until we have accepted that someone—God, another person, or even an animal—could fully accept us as we are. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 4, 2024
Further, per Fr Richard, my "new way," the downward path, is much more a transmission of authentic life and love than of mere ideas or doctrines.
There's my "new way" in black-and-white: A transmission of authentic life and love is what I sense I am experiencing with my unplanned, but positive, connections with others. This is the impersonal love I have read about, talked about, but am just now realizing full-blown in my life...without my written permission slip, so to speak.
I am receiving positive vibes from many with whom I've never sensed any vibe, good or not. Maybe it is that I have never consciously sent any vibe...or, God's vibe goes before us to transmute our ego's hold. Self-centered to Other-centered? For sure, God's vibe cannot be done by self-will.
Self-will transmuted to want-to transmuted to cannot do transmuted to surrender transmuted to acceptance. And here's me writing about the inability to think it out and trying to anyhow.
As Fr Richard Rohr has written, we don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong...inadvertently counts, I must add.
I suspect the big hold-back for many of us is our desire to walk in the sandals of the pure without the pain of finding a pair of our own...that fits only us. Ah, but God's gift waits for us to use that which he has already given us.
God's will, God's way is what Is. Love, laugh, deal with it, and pray thank You.
Thank you.
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