INADVERTENT EGO-ERRORS...GOD AT WORK

I felt an immediate inner connection with both of the following statements from Fr Richard's "Daily Meditation" today (2/28/22):

Unless we’ve had a conscious connection with the deepest ground of our being, we will continue to live as though we are separate from God. 

The final, stupendous gift is that our 'separate' self becomes the raw material for our unique version of True Self. Our ordinary lives and temperaments are not destroyed or rejected. They are transformed.

I know both of those statements to be true...it is how they are proving themselves to be true in my life today that is my gobsmacker. 

I love, and too often quote, my mentor's saying, "Showing your [bum] in public is also spiritual." 

Hoo-boy...I love to quote that, but walking it ain't all that much snuggle-up fun. 

I am conscious that I have been unconsciously walking it for a while now. It is usually in my quiet time that it comes to me that what I said or did one of my yesterdays must have looked, sounded like I am a "rank beginner." 

I note that is what I have prayed for...more than a few times...i.e., to have the mind of a rank beginner. The big uh-oh note...there is a significant difference between having the mind of a rank beginner and actually appearing to be a rank beginner.

Showing my bum in public may be spiritual purely because it puts "love and laugh" to the ultimate test. Once shown...inadvertently (which is God at work)...the self gets its test: Trust God, love it and grin within, or stay with "commonsense" and explain/justify to others, meaning, showing the bum further which is no longer spiritual but now a self-determined objective.

God loves me so much that he's given me a special place where I take no thought of what words may come from my mouth, I just trust and speak...giving me a lot to silently love and laugh about later. 

Truth to tell, I kinda miss having someone to agree as I justify myself...human approval is hard to hate. (God's approval, of course, is better...speaking from my eyebrows up).

Lastly, re that stupendous gift of our ordinary lives and temperaments not being destroyed but transformed, that transformation takes place in our soul, a.k.a., our True Self.  Our soul does not strut its stuff; it comes "disguised as our life," leaving eyebrows up naturally and spiritually the last to know.

Thank you.