It is said that going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous, but, according to me for me, going it alone is dangerous period. I say that is for me because all alone is my great comfort and being left all alone is my great fear.
Fr Richard Rohr wrote this morning that we need living communities to keep us accountable, growing, and honest. Yes, and yes again. However, just agreeing with that keeps it on the "pretty words" level. It is a hard fact to grasp but alone is terribly inviting when our world is out of step with us. (Which tells its own tale.) That's when we learn that keeping our self accountable all alone is virtually impossible.
Fr Richard Rohr wrote this morning that we need living communities to keep us accountable, growing, and honest. Yes, and yes again. However, just agreeing with that keeps it on the "pretty words" level. It is a hard fact to grasp but alone is terribly inviting when our world is out of step with us. (Which tells its own tale.) That's when we learn that keeping our self accountable all alone is virtually impossible.
Recognized mystics and spiritually advanced intuitives may have a crack at it, but those folks must be recognized and anointed by someone else...to recognize and anoint one self as such is heading on out to the funny farm...who's kidding whom?
Proving the fact that trying to keep our self accountable all alone is impossible is a lesson we learn only after the fact...when we've had to turn for help to God who, of course, turns us over to others.
And there it is, another paradox: We seek to be alone and turn to God for help; he turns us over to others...where we find the peace we sought in all alone.
The Father knows our needs.
Thank you.
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