I ponder today my oft-repeated Thaddeus Golas quote: Go beyond reason to love. With which comes the blinding flash: To go beyond reason is dementia. To the material mind, to go beyond reason gets us the thing we fear, dementia.
Well, isn't that the all-but perfect analogy...the thing we try (self-will) to bar from our thoughts is the thing we need (God's will) to learn to love.
We're reminded of the long-ago giftee: Nothing turns us to God faster than fear...and we learn again, deeper, that no matter how true, good, blessed the promise of God with us is, fear is a knee-knocker, not to hang around with.
The promise of still more spiritual growth is peace of mind. The hard truth backing up that promise is the climb up into that growth takes some serious dread, pain, resistance...who's kidding whom? Fear. Ah, we are just beginning to experience the dark night of the soul.
Blinding flash! That is God's will, God's way, the path that seekers have ever walked with or without material means...money, mind or sustenance.
The dark night is the Son's delight.
Thank you.
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