GOD IS NOT A LONER

Agree with your adversary quickly. -- from The Sermon on the Mount

It is clear that we will never agree one hundred percent with everybody...not so clear is that we must come to agreement right Now with whomever we are disagreeing with. 

We have learned that silence is not agreement, and we must beware of the dual tendency to either shut up or speak out. Of shutting up, we  have experienced silence as a judgment which hurts and/or angers as much as speaking out. The better way is to learn to make listening noises as we withdraw from verbal battles...which is to say, remove our focus from the negative, refocus on a positive. 

With listening noises, the tone of our voice matters...there is a world of difference between a heavy "Huh!" and a light "Humm." Neither enunciates  a word, both convey a world of meaning, but only the latter offers the intention to come to agreement.

The hard lesson a-learning: When we humbly ask God to remove our defects of character, our work begins. As Fr Richard Rohr wrote in today's "Daily Meditation," We must participate in the process! 

That's how still  more spiritual growth takes root, sprouts and grows us...by our participation in God's  process. God is not a loner.

Thank you.