COMFORTED BY OUR UNKNOWING

A spiritually mature Merton knew by a contemplative, intuitive grasp that oneness is less a goal toward which life is pressing, as it is a return to the truth in which we have always been held. * * * We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. What we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are. --  Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation"

We hear and want to believe that all our problems have already been solved...our need is to prove that truth to our own self.

Which, who's kidding whom?, means we get to Just Do It. Our problem du jour for which we are giving thanks to God...while wondering huh? and how? and what to do?...exists only in our imagination. Why, then, do we continue to ponder, analyze, judge then wallow in guilt for judging? 

Here's my excellent/addle-patted answer: That is the way we must go, what we must do, to ready ourself to be what we are. That is shucking our shields...our shields being our many different views of what perfection should look like for us personally if we're doing it right. That's the starter...that which gets us to crash-and-burn. 

The starter is God's inverted perspective...or our inverted perspective of God's will. Our ideas, opinions, mindset must change, a.k.a., crash and burn. Our mind must be changed not by figuring "it" out but by grace and by God. It is a slow, slow process in recognizing that as the way our thinking is  lifted up deeper.

We cannot unthink, we can only find our thinking upgraded...to gratitude for our problem du jour. Naught else brings us to God so completely...bewildered yet comforted by our unknowing.

Thank you.