Until we discover the 'little way,' we almost all try to gain moral high ground by obeying laws and thinking we are thus spiritually advanced. — Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, October 5. 2024
It seems I keep being returned to the "little way."
I can accept that because some time back I thought of my new-to-me spiritual path as less than the fancy-schmancy ways I was hearing as being taught...a lot of religiosity, smoke screens and high-dollar verbosity. None of which fit me...thank you, Jesus.
I had long since made peace with my "new" or "little" way, but it was a comfort to receive from my beloved Fr Richard written assurance that my way was God's way for me.
I have taken a few self-will directed trips and/or tangents, none of which I regret...each helped me learn that we have only one need, and that is we need to change our mind. To change our mind is of God and not possible by the unaided will. The higher lesson we re-re-relearn: God's will, God's way is already done...completed...perfected within us.
Yet, there's the reasoning mind's quandary: Unwilling to chance personal acceptance, we keep trying to "get" it which is reasoning mind's block and spiritual mind's gift.
Until three days after we are dead the umpteenth time, we'll still be trying to "get" it. No doubt, that is a rest-of-life fact that, when accepted, brings love and laughter and the comforting knowledge that we've doing it right by doing it wrong.
God's will, God's way does not arrive by reason...it's a prayed-for, yet always unexpected, gift.
Thank you.
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