Once you experience joy, once you find those inner pathways, it leaves markers toward those inner resources so that you never lose sight of them again…. Dr. Barbara Holmes, "Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation," June 20, 2025
The joy Dr. Holmes refers to is a joy beyond the reasoning mind, beyond the human ability to manufacture it...or birth it.The human mind usually does not think of joy as anything but feels good, gives me pleasure...until joy in the form of crash-and-burn lifts us from self and opens us to Self.
The spiritual discovery...the pearl beyond price...is our awakening to that which we have never not had! Just as we were born with the potential ability to walk and talk, we had to grow into our capability to use them.
Never discounting the miracle-work of God, we discover our capability is up to us...want-to and belief are the determiners. Enough to just get by? To seek a deeper path? To dare take that path? Still more spiritual growth makes itself known.
It is another God-gift when we discover within our own self that the dark night of the soul is God calling...resist not evil comes of age. This is the first step in loosening our dependence on our own reason. It is a very slow process when, not if, we're doing it right.
Try with a will or fall by the wayside rings true...we are lifted into God-consciousness where God's will, God's way is answered prayer, and all our striving earns its keep.
In the end, all we have is our integrity. So let us stand in it, grounded in the One who renews us each moment and calls us to a nonviolent witness of love. -- Episcopal priest Adam Bucko
Thank you.
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