THROUGH GRACE...LOVE AND FORGIVENESS

I do believe, having come to me from reading Meister Eckhart, that the only prayer we will ever need is thank you. I must admit, however, when (not if) I forget that, my fallback prayer is,  Father forgive me for I know exactly what I do, and I do it anyway.

Our Father cannot not forgive for forgiveness is love and our Father is love, so apparently my fallback prayer is God's reminder to me that it is my heart that needs to change. It is my belief that free will is our spiritual gift, given us purely to return to God, at the same time being our reasoning mind's bane as long as it remains unreturnable...awaiting our change of heart. 

This morning's Sermon, at Matthew 5:21-26, was all about reconciling with whomever we're angry with or whoever has reason to be angry with us...and the basis of our reconciliation in short is our accepting the blame. 

I take that as when wrong, promptly admit it, else all we do after is ego driven. Flash, flash! There is no God even in good works when we are living with an unacknowledged wrong of our own or with an unforgiven wrong of another. Face it, we need to make peace if only in our own heart with the one we have hindered. We can make nobody love us, but we can have love in our heart for anybody...through grace and the love of God.

Following [spiritual principles], we need to trust the down, and God will take care of the up. Although even there, we still must offer our yes. -- Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditation," April 5, 2020

Thank you.