The following is from "Daily
Meditations," Fr Richard Rohr, December 8, 2013 [the trouble with it is its probably true,
every single word]: Struggling with one’s own shadow self, facing interior
conflicts and moral failures, undergoing rejections and abandonment, daily
humiliations, experiencing any kind of abuse or your own clear limitations,
even accepting that some people hate you: All of these are gateways into deeper
consciousness and the flowering of the soul.
Don't you just hate it?
I get up this morning, ice is forecast so my mouth is
complaining but my mind is cheering...I'm excused from doing anything at all
this whole day (except walk Ruckus, of course, and that's serving the Lord).
With that single thought, I'm off...I'm dreaming, not of a white Christmas but
of winning...winning big time. A life of luxury and adulation are to be mine (a
tish late, but hey...). I even remember that shaman’s "If you can see it,
you can be it" which affirms my dreams as plain truth.
Then a blinding flash of the obvious: God has but one desire
for me and that is that I have but one desire: To wash the feet of the beggar
man, of the bag lady. To seek and to be gifted with that honest desire is to
soar...to cling to nothing...to soar.
Rats.
Thank you.
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