People who live their entire lives inside of a system of competing, measuring, earning, counting, and performing can’t understand how the win/win scenario of the Gospel would even be interesting or attractive. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," May 23, 2017
I tend to believe that people who live their entire lives inside of a system of competing are those who cannot or will not accept that to cease fighting anything and anybody is the better way.
There are those who are well-versed in and are seeking still more spiritual growth who do not (and vehemently do not) believe in the "concept" of ceasing to fight. I don't choose to fight about it, but I do wonder how they marry what to me is two divergent points of view. Like me, they seek peace, but after all our words are thrown out and stripped bare, their answer is, because the other side deserves it, beat 'em...with a stick of wood or a stick of dynamite, makes no never mind which, but beat 'em.
I simply cannot get a mental picture of God going for a gun. Nor can I get a mental picture of me going for a gun when I have God. My goal is not to get more visible protection for the world...my goal is to trust more completely the invisible protection that already is and has ever been in the world.
I can't help but remember the great line from the protesters of the '60s: Fighting for peace is like f**king for virginity. Not to put too fine a point on it.
Thank you.
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