ON LEARNING TO LOVE BETTER

We are here to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. Despite the countless and diverse ways we live our lives, every life is a spiritual path, and all life has a spiritual agenda. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," August 20, 2020

Blinding flash of the obvious, redux: I shall not want...I have enough. 

I am beginning to get it...our enough is only enough if we share it. If we cling to our enough, it becomes our self's security...our egoic God. 

I have comforted myself over the years with my long ago BFO that we are born with all the love, patience, kindness, etc., there is. Being born with them within us, all we need do to "have" them is use them.

I have comforted myself with the words, but when I began my walking-it journey, I experienced the reality of words per se. They are just letters strung together until we live what those strung-together letters spell out...and mean. 

Having from birth all the love there is within me is pretty as a picture. But what if I don't know what love is? What it means...how to do it...with everybody, not just people I agree with, or, more like, who agree with me. 

Plain and simple, knowing what love means and how to do it is the purpose of the Sermon on the Mount, of the Steps we live by. We learn what love is and how to do it by living spiritual principles; i.e., we agree with our adversary quickly when wrong, we promptly admit it; we cease fighting anything and anybody by judging not lest we be judged...we resist not evil. 

Practicing spiritual principles unto living and breathing them is learning to love better. Ah, there is no enough.

Thank you.