We are given permission to become intimate with our own experiences, learn from them, and allow ourselves to descend to the depth of things, even our mistakes, before we try too quickly to transcend it all in the name of some idealized purity or superiority. God hides in the depths—even the depths of our sins—and is not seen as long as we stay on the surface of anything. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, December 22, 2024
That may be the most brilliant thing I've ever read.
I've read it more than once and only with this last reading did that occur to me...I just read it again and wonder why it seemed so brilliant. That's enough to tell me I need to stay with it...it seems to be speaking in tongues, but it is speaking to me!
To descend to the depth of things, i.e., our own experiences, our own mistakes, is to crash and burn. We are the life-lesson proving our personal crash and burn is essential for God to lift us to our rightful place.
To try too quickly to transcend, suffering the learning of our life-lesson is staying stuck in self-determined objectives, the circular road back to self-centered fear.
God hides in the depths—even the depths of our sins—and is not seen as long as we stay on the surface of anything. Staying on the surface is stuck in self...there is no growth there, spiritual or otherwise...stuck is stuck, not moving anywhere.
We must lose all hope...all hope of healing our wounded self. The conundrum is we cannot self-determine how we lose all hope, even as we know we are hoping for our idea of the help we need. We may even be right, yet that "right" too must fall by the wayside.
That is the beginning of the crash and burn that leads us home. Only a deflated ego can be lifted out of self-limiting wants. A deflated ego...ah, the depths where God hides...the reasoning mind is not capable of thinking us there.
Go beneath the surface, descend to the depth of things...God hides in the depths.
We must go beyond reason to love. -- Thaddeus Golas
Thank you.
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