Failure and falling short are the best teachers; success has virtually nothing to teach us on the spiritual path. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, February 21, 2021
It is a wondrous truth, as Fr Richard has asserted, that all spirituality is about letting go.
It came to me sometime back, and I suspect it is true, that in the end all that matters is what I have done for others. I've pondered that...a lot...and for me that is all about letting go.
Face it, the rough and rutted road back to God boils down to the quiet word of John 11:44, Loose him and let him go. Or, more to the point for our love-it-and-laugh need: Loose ego and let ego go.There it is...a lifetime of still more spiritual growth in six words.
Spiritual growth, the essence of ego deflation, is the entry way for the blinding flash of the obvious, which changes us without our effort or head-knowledge. Head-knowledge, or the reasoning mind, is possibly the hardest of all to temper...not to get rid of, because it does serve a good purpose, just not the better one.
It is the reasoning mind that refuses to accept, thus keeps us trying so hard to "get," that which we've already "got."
Reasoning mind translation: What we got here is failure to communicate.
Spiritual translation: Loose it and let it go...or Thy will, not mine, be done.
Thank you.
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