For some time now my message has been to go smaller, seek the lesser, want naught. In particular, to go deeper, not higher...which I take to mean we need to seek deeper spiritually and beware of reasoning mind higher.
The following from Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation today affirms those messages: The path of descent is the path of transformation. Struggle, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.
My today's flash gives weight to the many poems, essays and encouraging words on less-than being beneficial...for our personal benefit. Never having achieved perfection, I'm guessing it would hardly send us to God...for what?
We recall Fr Richard's, We don't get to God by doing it right, we get to God by doing it wrong which takes us deeper still. We get to God by doing it wrong when we're so earnestly trying to do it right...relying on our reasoning mind as our guide. Ah, it is our imperfections that seek God.
Thank you.
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