We go through our lives, our years on this Earth, thinking of ourselves as separate....When we’re separate, everything becomes about protecting and defending ourselves....The whole gospel message is radical union with God, with neighbor, and even with ourselves. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditations, November 11, 2024
Priceless spiritual information too humanly difficult to remember (or retain?): We go to God for God and that is all.
We get all up in our head and give our self credit for understanding that is all because that is all...meaning God is all and every thought flowing from that realization is self, too often trying to bend it to our will.
We are trying to get equal footing with God...in truth, pondering ways to bring God down, versus ways to lift us up. There it is...that sense of separate that we deny even as we seek it.
That radical union that Rohr speaks of, when realized, is the Father and I are One. The Father and I one'd... I being you, me, us, we, them, they, et al.
Blinding flash of the obvious: I am the halt, the lame, the poor, the dirty...we are the less-thans for whom we pray as we give them a wide walk-by while speaking pretty words of love. That, too, is of God.
Thank you.
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