The key to living as a prophet-mystic is showing up for what is, no matter how heartbreaking or laborious, how fraught with seemingly intractable conflict and how tempting it might be to meditate or pray our way out of the pain. —Mirabai Starr, Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, February 8, 2025
We need to practice what Starr says...the key to living a "turned over" life is showing up for what is.
We have all experienced our own "dark nights of the soul." We are too well aware that those dark nights are fear, plain and simple, seemingly all encompassing, personal and without end, and, lest we forget God's bottom line: necessary.
It is highly improbable that we will feel an inner God-connection when we are in that dark night...the beatific reality is God can move us. There...the birth of nothing turns us to God faster than fear, which opens our consciousness to wonders beyond self-knowledge by the grace of gratitude.
It is all very simple when we look back on it...the sad part is how few of us stay the dark course in order to look back in awe.
It is only in staying the dark course that we get to the other side...enlightenment. No amount of thinking, feeling, writing, wishing or praying will get us to the other side, but necessarily we must feel and/or do each of those things to reach that unknown goal, hopelessness.
Without a prayer, we are brought home. Without a hope, we are lifted from self to Self...God's will, God's way.
We must go beyond reason to love. - Thaddeus Golas
Thank you.
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