WE MAY BE WILLING, BUT ARE WE READY?

Jesus is the stand-in for all of us. We had thought our form was merely human, but Jesus came to show us that our actual form is human-divine, just as he is. -- Fr Richard Rohr, "Daily Meditation," January 10, 2022 

When I read that sentence from Rohr on January 10th, I felt gobsmacked. I had had a blinding flash of the obvious just two weeks previously, to wit: 12/27/21 BFO: Jesus is the generic name for me.

That thought has been paying stop-and-go visits since it came to me, then Rohr's quote gave it more credence...more "what if?" possibility. 

It was my (at the time kinda embarrassing) BFO about the name Jesus being generic for me that caused me pause. Then I realized, if generic for me, then for all of us in this world...which opened me to its roots, as in, what else could the Father and I are One be about? 

I'll say this, it is a lot easier for me to see me being "loving" to my Gertrude-nemesis as opposed to "not as nasty as I want to be" when I picture me walking in Jesus' sandals.

For  now, I'm taking this as my 2022 To Try For...I can only give it my best shot which is God-directed so I just need remember to walk behind and follow directions. As always, mistakes will be made...and why the quiet word is when, not if, wrong, promptly admit it.

I feel like I'm setting out on a journey! As has been said, if invited to go to Paris, we know we're willing to go but are we ready? As in, current passport? Shots? Packed?   

I'm trusting that I wouldn't have had my blinding flash if I weren't ready. And if I'm not, what's the harm in trying? Win-win.

God loves me so much. 

Thank you. 

P.S.  For years the very word "Jesus" gave me heartburn...except to mock, I did not go there. Early on my path of spiritual growth, three personal events happened not simultaneously but too close to quibble over...first, I found it essential to find a God of my own understanding, then spirituality was introduced to me, then I learned from one of the first members of my fellowship that the Sermon on the Mount was their early-days textbook...and that Sermon came from Jesus's mouth to our ears. Thus ended my resistance.