My morning’s blinding flash of the obvious: (From Fr.
Richard Rohr's morning meditation on "the Risen Christ") The Risen
Christ is the Christ within me when i am transformed: I Am the Risen Christ.
Pondering that: The Risen Christ is me, it is we as we go
through ego reduction in depth to our highest place, the center of our
being...where our single purpose in living is to become unselfed, for the
benefit of others.
Geez, I have such beautiful thoughts when I’m sitting in the
silence. Then I read a note I wrote in my “God Calling” on this date in 1989 (and I have no
idea who first said it, but tell me it’s not God calling to me this very instant):
“We teach best that which we need to learn.”
That fits me so well today…too well today. My ego-victory
thoughts have been swamped with Gertrude and how I must set her straight…she is
not doing it right, and somebody needs to tell her, and I wanna be the one, so
there.
There it is. That’s the me I need to love…not the one who is
blessed with pretty thoughts (for which I am grateful), but the self-willed one
who knows better but hasn't yet learned…no, hasn't yet fully learned unto
living those thoughts.
I take comfort in knowing that God has my back. If he didn't,
I wouldn't know when I start down that wrong road again. He’s guiding me…not
guarding me, I still have free will…but he is guiding me. So that when I start
down that wrong road again, he nudges me back…like, to little notes written by
me in 1989.
Thank You.
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