Father Richard teaches that to become wise, we must move into life itself, encountering people and places that challenge our ways of thinking. *** Persist at that deeper place in yourself where the both-and' is located. This is the place of the soul and the place of wisdom toward which we have to move.
I wonder if all desire for other than still more spiritual growth isn't a desire for a self-determined objective no matter how prettied-up the "other" seems to us.
I heard me say today, I wish I were in love again, and I realized that underneath what I really wish is that I knew love...I really don't have a clue. Blinding flash: I wonder if anybody truly does...know love. Well, there I go down that wrong road again...overanalyzing.
Our lesson for today: God's will, God's way is for our benefit always and all ways...the rockier it feels, the smoother our Way...it is rough and rugged that plows our field of resistance, i.e., self-will.
We need to recognize that, among other things, the real purpose of self is to move into life itself to encounter people and places that challenge our ways of thinking. Ah...still more spiritual growth.
Thank you.
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