[The following is a reprint of my post of November 22, 2021.]
When you've stumbled--and the guilt, loneliness, and fear come to assault you--if you don't have at least one good friend, or if you have not developed a prayer life where you know how to find yourself in God instead of in your own feelings, you will simply retrench and reassert your correctness. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 13, 2016
I love to note and note again: "When you've stumbled...." When, not if.
We only parade our victim-self when we stumble and call ourself all manner of ugly...or find someone to blame and shame for our ugly. There is no God there. There is only self, glorified in our own feelings of less-than...unloved, unwanted, unneeded, unappreciated...and loving our hurt of it. Why would we ever let that go?
I'm a believer that it is the stumbling that is the root of thank you.
When, not if, we stumble, trip, fall, make a blithering fool of our self, thank you is the Velveteen Rabbit that hugs us, kisses us, calls us Beloved. Ah, and opens us to God's love and laughter...now ours.
God works in mysterious ways to ensure our life is wondrous.
Thank you.
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