To stay on the ride, to trust the trajectory, to know it is moving, and moving somewhere always better, is just about the best way to describe religious faith. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, January 4, 2019
I'm guessing patience has such a less-than-inviting...shuddering, actually...meaning to us is because it means what we're wanting is not here, and it may be a long wait...or never...getting here.
I read just this morning about the wonders of love and how love brings nothing but good...love all things, feel good. Whoa and wait a minute...all things include pain and suffering, lack and loneliness, slander and calumny. Comes the bell-ringer: This is the road to acceptance of love in toto.
We get a glimmer of life itself...pain, lack and calumny are just another part of life. It is patience we need to not resist life's sufferings, but to walk forward toward acceptance with the God of our own understanding as our Shepherd. (And doesn't that encourage us to go for an upgrade of the God of our own understanding? Face it, it is our own understanding.)
That it is that stays us on the ride toward trusting the trajectory, to knowing it is moving, and moving somewhere always better. We are gifted with knowing that we are treasured, protected...graced in a word.
All our trials, Lord, soon be over.
Thank you.
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