Ah, the candle was lighted this morning. I read that and, as per usual when I read it, I felt guilty that I "do nothing." Comes now my blinding flash of the obvious: I do not "do nothing." I seek.
I know and I know I know that seeking counts...it is not nothing.
Lest my ego Lucy uses that to justify pondering and analyzing and calling that "doing something," the big time howsomever is, as Fr Richard Rohr has written, If your spiritual practice doesn’t lead you to some acts of concrete caring or service, then you have every reason not to trust it.
I seek within and without. One of my hard-won gifts is the acceptance of myself and my limitations. I do not march, lobby or proselytize, I make myself available, I welcome the exchange of ideas. I seek not to prove I am right or to be proved not right but to be one with the seekers of the self-less way.
The self-less way has been paved by many who have gone before. One can flounder by mixing and matching so I long ago settled on the Sermon on the Mount as my way, and all that comes from that is pretty much sacred to me.
Two ideas that come straight from the Sermon are my guides: (1) We have ceased fighting anything and anybody; and (2) It is a spiritual axiom that whenever anything upsets me, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with me.
Proving those true in my walking around world counts as "something," which, best face it, is not easy. Ah, but there's the grounds for gratitude.
God loves me, you, them, ours and theirs so much!
Thank you.
Lest my ego Lucy uses that to justify pondering and analyzing and calling that "doing something," the big time howsomever is, as Fr Richard Rohr has written, If your spiritual practice doesn’t lead you to some acts of concrete caring or service, then you have every reason not to trust it.
I seek within and without. One of my hard-won gifts is the acceptance of myself and my limitations. I do not march, lobby or proselytize, I make myself available, I welcome the exchange of ideas. I seek not to prove I am right or to be proved not right but to be one with the seekers of the self-less way.
The self-less way has been paved by many who have gone before. One can flounder by mixing and matching so I long ago settled on the Sermon on the Mount as my way, and all that comes from that is pretty much sacred to me.
Two ideas that come straight from the Sermon are my guides: (1) We have ceased fighting anything and anybody; and (2) It is a spiritual axiom that whenever anything upsets me, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with me.
Proving those true in my walking around world counts as "something," which, best face it, is not easy. Ah, but there's the grounds for gratitude.
God loves me, you, them, ours and theirs so much!
Thank you.
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