The mystic can never be certain that union with God will be the outcome of longing for God. They must rest in unknowing. * * * And yet that emptiness, that waiting, that liminal space is sacred. -- Mirabai Starr, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, March 7, 2025
This way, i.e., resting in the unknowing, previously accepted by me as waiting on the Spirit to move me, I can now accept as my eyes being lifted...to see anew.
It is not that I did nothing when "waiting." I've inner known (before realizing) that this was not a self-determined want but somehow a need, ergo of God because quite simply it fit me.
This then is the a result of the long-ago commitment I made to seek still more spiritual growth in all things that come to me. The majority of the time I have succeeded...that's 51 percent of the time, hitting sometimes higher, never lower.
To seek still more spiritual growth in all things that come to me became real when I accepted that my spiritual growth was most often realized when I looked back...usually with regrets. The God-change came when I looked back and saw the results of my regrets had benefitted another. To see God's finished product, our name not even on it, is the pearl beyond price.
What a gift it is to look back and realize, or just glimpse, spiritual growth in much of our daily life born of our reasoning mind's rues, regrets and remorses.
We very likely receive our greatest gift when our mindset is exchanged for God's.
Thank you.
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