It is the reasoning mind's dilemma, when once it accepts its powerlessness, to try to return our free will to God in exchange for his will. This is an invite to the ultimate crash and burn for that exchange cannot be done...we'd just as well ask to return our ability to breathe yet continue to walk on this earth in order to avoid COPD.
A glance at our motives tells us we are not seeking an exchange of our free will for God's will for our spiritual growth. No, we are seeking to avoid the hard lessons we must learn in this life on our journey out from and back to the Father within.
We begin to awaken when we realize that it is our very own free will that keeps us heading toward and for God's will. Thus is formed our crucible where the rues, regrets and remorses, the mistakes of our free will, are turned into the gold that invites our Father within to flow forth. The person we are meant to be is aborning with our goal now to be of help to others.
According to me.
This is why I love symbols and myths, exaggerations and stories. Taken literally, my BFOs can be called a crock...and may have been, but never to me or by me. They lift my heart, free my doubting mind, transmute my soul into My soul, and prove Rohr's contention that: A heart trapped in historical literalism, or closed to the power of poetry, will remain bored, reactive, and trapped in critique....A true symbol is not only a pointer to 'a more absolute reality,' but by that very fact awakens us to the deepest level of our own life too. [Fr. Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," September 28, 2015]
A heart trapped in literalism is a heart trapped.
Thank you.
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