The biblical revelation is about awakening. It’s about realization, not performance principles. We cannot get there, we can only be there.... [Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, June 8, 2025]
This tells us we are already there...when we wake up to it which often feels like three days after we are dead.
To come to believe this as our own truth is to live in elevated consciousness...I wonder if living in elevated consciousness means we still have worries, frets, self-centered fears, only with a sense of spirituality...fancy words for a more-or-less peaced mind.
We pray for perfect peace but in this world...in the material world...I doubt that perfect peace is what we really want...mainly because we would not recognize it if we got it. We'd probably start taking our temperature p.d.q. for fear of covid or worse.
According to me, perfect peace is living in this world with less self-centered fears, but those we still have are for our benefit...they head us toward God.
Their only purpose, self-centered fear's only purpose, is for our still more spiritual growth. Without its push-pull, we'd no doubt wind up robbing banks or shooting our own self in the back of the head. Because, why not? Where's the double-edged sword when we have our own idea of perfect peace, and it comes up boring?
Going for God's will, God's way is our ever-opening mind to Uh-Oh, Look Out!, Detour! and on the other side, finding this, too, is for our benefit. Ah, but we must walk through the danger-zone to get to the other side, and we cannot walk through it alone...it only feels like that.
There...the basic source of our fear: Left all alone without even a hope left for us.
There, too, is God's will, God' way...left without a hope, God fills the void, and we are Home.
Thank you.
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