Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. -- Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," April 10, 2025
Is it solitude, then, that is/has happened within me?...this altered sense of being alone, but with new and different feelings that began around my 80th birthday, so I am calling "my 80s."
I suspect it is the phrase in the presence of pure love that is the ghost that bars me. The bar being the absence of knowingly having any feeling of pure love within me.
Maybe solitude is simply an encounter with the Father within, which encounter can only be pure love and uses courage we are unaware we have.
It may not be the absence of any feeling of pure love within me...it maybe I never learned to name it that.
I can accept as pure love my feeling warmed, wanted, special in the physical, mental or spiritual company of various people and pets...but I have no feeling of God's love present here and now, only my intense desire for it.
On this I rest my comfort: All of these jumbled facts about feelings are of God, too, leading me to love and to be loved.
Thank you.
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