PROVED NOT BY RATIONAL LOGIC

This is the nature of mature, mystical religion—simple and clear. ...reground religion on one lone conviction—a divine love that can only be experienced and not proved by rational logic....Anything that gets in the way of this divine and absolute love must be shaved away. -- Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations, March 13, 2025

The need for divine and absolute love means nobody, no thing, nothing goes unloved. 

Mentally, here comes Donald Trump leading my prove-it pack.

I am about halfway convinced that at this time Donald Trump was led by divine grace to his place in this world, and led not by a spiritual urge, but by his self-obsession...a degree of which is in all of us. 

That degree of self-obsession is fear, and that fear is God in disguise...which opens me to my self-identifying hook that I hang my prove-it on. 

If not for the fairly constant failure of self-determined objectives, it is unlikely we would ever seek a God of our own understanding. That is, a higher Power, a power greater than ourself, to peace our mind. The very idea is too "whoo-whoo" for the rational mind. (I have an ongoing debate with myself as to whether God is in "rational.")

Our acceptance of the fact that anything that gets in the way of our need for the God of our own understanding may well be the hardest fact and act we will ever meet. It helps when we accept that we will never make 100 percent, 100 percent of the time. 

The grace of God, our sincere want-to prayers and upward actions will keep us heading in the right direction...with the touch-and-go of God bringing the occasional pearl beyond price.  

Thank you.