As I have for the past four years, I wondered...forgiveness for what? I just haven't been all that bad...maybe only because I never got a chance to be downright evil, but free-floating guilt is free-floating guilt with or without an anchor.
Today I was jolted by the thought, what if that is true?...that my chase has been for forgiveness. That the forgiveness I chase is for "original sin" (and, make book, that was named by ego), having naught to do with the people, places and things of my life which have been long-since mutually forgiven?
But...what if it is both! The reasoning mind's people, places and things being ego's hidey hole, the place from which ego slithers for it's 2:00 AM house calls. "Original sin" being our Source, the gold hidden under the trash with no other purpose but to bring us back to God.
And there we realize it for what it is...original goodness.
Thank you.
[NOTE: Original Goodness by Eknath Easwaran is the first book of his I ever read, and it was wonderfully enlightening.]
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