Human beings seem to need to fight and engage with something before they can take it seriously—and before they can discover what they really need or want. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," August 10, 2020
Does Donald Trump represent that which is within each of us that we must overcome...the angel we must wrestle...to find God?
Or is he our Golden Calf, our supreme act of apostasy? All the ugly that we were taught as youngsters we must not do? If so, and we have elected him President of our Country, is Trump not truly our own mirror image?
Whether that be so or not, it is our own self we must change. We turn back to the toughie: Resist not evil. We realize that our change is to love...to love not Trump, per se, but all that Trump represents to us, all that we are resisting that we have invited into our world, into our very consciousness.
We must overcome our own self, and the overcoming is by love...ah, but by our new-found definition of love. We begin to love the fact of Donald Trump...for it is his nature, his acts that have shown us our own self. We judged him by the mote in his eye, and ignored our own, the beam that blinded us.
With that new and ancient reasoning, we are brought to a U-bie in midair for the rest of Rohr's quote is:
The people who never fight religion, guilt, parents, injustice, friends, marriage partners, and laws usually don’t respect their own power, importance, and freedom. They remain content with the external values of the first “lawful” container, instead of working to discover their own.
We read that and realize that we must get in good trouble.We feel boomeranged for our forever law flashes in our mind like a neon sign: Most important is the discovery that all our problems can be solved by spiritual principles.
Ah, we are surrendered...we accept...all our self-determined objectives are for naught. We can and must love, and the love we live is to fear not getting in good trouble for that is The Way when we live by spiritual principles.
God blessed John Lewis...and us.
Thank you.
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