This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. -- from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
I love that so much. To fall, to make mistakes, to show our butt...all are necessary steps on the road to still more spiritual growth. None are desired or prayed for, you'd best believe, but that's probably how we know they are God's gifts to us.
It was particularly important for me to ponder the "to fall" part of the quote until I fully realized its value. However, it was when I moved on to "patiently to trust our heaviness" that I was slapped (gob smacked fits perfectly here) with the real import. (For "heaviness," I think "humanness.")
To trust my humanness, is to give up any hope of being able to think my way out of any error I am bound to make. Control in a word...to give up the want to control others' thoughts of me and my fall. This is a fairly simple process...all we must needs do is hurt so badly that we truly want God's will to be done in our life more than we want our own will to be done in this and in every instance now and forevermore please thank you Amen.
Thy will, not mine, be done. Pray it and mean it...from your toenails up.
Thank you.
To trust my humanness, is to give up any hope of being able to think my way out of any error I am bound to make. Control in a word...to give up the want to control others' thoughts of me and my fall. This is a fairly simple process...all we must needs do is hurt so badly that we truly want God's will to be done in our life more than we want our own will to be done in this and in every instance now and forevermore please thank you Amen.
Thy will, not mine, be done. Pray it and mean it...from your toenails up.
Thank you.
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