And then...and then...and then....
Holy moly, Mama! Here comes a brand new word, seemingly the exact opposite of what we've worked so hard to accept and then to live by. Fortunately, our spiritual growth has prepared us for an uh-oh here and a whaaa? there, and we move forward...slowly...so as to grasp this new way, this way of unreasoning rightness.
Just yesterday I took a leap of faith and used one of the new commands, which felt wildly risky. I got no atta girl from within and awoke this morning feeling a tish dicey...did I blunder or maybe hear wrong?
Ah, we can know we are heading in the right direction by the markers laid down before us.
Fr Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation" today gave me my atta girl: But this wisdom only comes later, when we’ve learned to listen to the different voices that guide us in the second half of life. *** These deeper voices will sound like risk, trust, surrender, uncommon sense, destiny, love. They will be the voices of an intimate stranger, a voice that’s from somewhere else, and yet it’s my deepest self at the same time. It’s the still, small voice that the prophet Elijah slowly but surely learned to hear.
My edgy feeling was smoothed as I read and realized that my Father knows my needs before I do and fulfills them in the instant. Risk, trust, surrender to uncommon sense.
Thank you.
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