FOR OTHERS...LOVE UNLEASHED, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of June 28, 2016.]

God's home is within us for others. God lives within us for others. His home is within my heart, my soul, my body and my brain for the benefit of others.

We can read, ponder and pontificate till our face falls off, but it is our works, our selfless works, our care and concern for other than self that brings us the unattainable by our self's efforts...we are gifted by grace.

Gifted by grace means we give up the struggle to make that happen. Or even to understand it...it is love unleashed.

The space in between knowing that and doing that is life itself. According to me.

Thank you.

INTENTIONAL...THE POWER OF PURPOSE

,,,, without intentional spiritual formation and maturity, power, fear, and spectacle will train the soul faster than truth will. -- "Richard Rohr Daily Meditation," April 15, 2026

There. The quiet word laid out in black and white. The quiet word being intentional. 

We intentionally go to God for God and that is all. That is not a blinding flash dropped from the Blue...that is on purpose...on purpose we go to God for God and that is all.

That on purpose is and has been for some 50 years now my sole goal...whether I gutbucket knew it or not.

For this I seek...freedom from self's fear and spectacle.

I go to God for God and that is all.

Thank you.

TO KNOW LOVE...THE PEARL BEYOND PRICE

The hallmark of this [kingdom] awareness is that it sees no separation—not between God and humans, not between humans and other humans. -- "Fr Richard Rohr Daily Meditation," June 9, 2026

From my eyebrows up, I get this. I think I accept it fully, but that brings me flat up against the fact that one has not "accepted" if one is left wondering, questioning, "how?" and "what does this really mean?" In particular: "How do I make this my own?"

Lately, I notice that almost every spiritually based question I have has but one answer: We go to God for God, and that is all.

Given the space, God can and will fill in the answer....it is our job and/or privilege to give God the space. We give over, give up, give in, and God has us in the palm of His hand. 

I have experienced the truth of those words a few times, but those few times have changed my life. 

Today, when I find me in a human-life quandary, I go to God for God which does not remove the quandary...better than that: my mind is peaced.

There, the pearl beyond price: My mind is peaced...and I know love.

Thank you.

THE MIND ALONE WILL NEVER GET US THERE

The bottom line is that everybody has enough. *** Trying to understand it with your mind, you’ll never get it.... Cynthia Bourgeault, "Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation," June 11, 2026

When I read "everybody has enough," my head, my heart my Soul shouted Amen! That I have enough has for a long time now been my mental safety net. 

Back in the '80s when I had what I call the care and feeding of the IRS, I intuitively knew that I had enough, would always have enough. I knew I could and would be able to feed and house my beloved dog and me...and I did not know that by the evidence in my bank account which was reading zero. 

I did get through that period without needing to beg, borrow or steal. I had a job, I made the deal the IRS presented, and I was moved on to my next level...learning the art of spiritual love. Or, learning to feel love for others when the response feels less that loving. 

I can see...but cannot yet do without serious effort...the need is to take nothing personally. Acceptance in a word. 

As Bourgeault wrote, Trying to understand it with your mind, you’ll never get it.

Thank you.

TO FIND OUR FATHER WITHIN, I

[The following is a reprint of my post of June 30, 2018,]

What if Donald Trump is our Saul of Tarsus? As in Saint Paul before his involuntary conversion.

What if that's you and me? What if we're all Saul, rigid, righteous and right, before involuntary or voluntary conversion? According to me, some of us crash and burn leaving no place to turn but to a power greater than ourselves; some of us are born seeking a higher power and some just stumble onto it. It makes no never mind how we get there, get there we must...again, according to me.

Will we open our mind to the possibility of it?...to the possibility that we are Trump in disguise...or Pruitt...or Hillary! Are we willing to find within our own self that part of them we are repulsed by, to seek for that identity in order to release it...loose it and let it go...and find our Father within?

Until we do, we will be tied to our own repugnant thoughts...calling our own thoughts Trump, Pruitt, Hillary, et al. 

Those thoughts will grow...but we won't.

Thank you.

A LITTLE HAND MIRROR, I

[The following is a reprint of my blog of November 21, 2012.]

So I'm talking with God this morning, and He says, "I'll tell you what you need...you need a little hand mirror to carry with you at all times. That way you'll always be able to see immediately and exactly who and what your problem is."

That was such a good idea that I immediately thought of all the people I needed to give a little hand mirror to....

Thank you.

ON BEING...JUST BE

[Spiritual growth] is all about being who you are....here’s the first step: Know who you are. Be who you are. Be the person God created you to be. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," June 5, 2026

I go to God for God, and that is all keeps playing in my mind. I received that as a blinding flash of the obvious a while back. It plays in and through me regularly...for which I am grateful.

The fact of the matter though...I go to God with thank You the majority of the time. There's my comfort... knowing I have turned me over to the care of our Father which art in Heaven. 

Leaving me there is my spiritual growth. 

Thank you.