[C]ontemplation is simply a way of maintaining the fruits of great love and great suffering over the long haul and in different situations.. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, July 27, 2023
What's a little scary and way wonderful is the casual mention of contemplation being a way to maintain the fruits of great love and great suffering as we live life daily...which, face it, is over the long haul and in different situations.
Who doesn't seek great love? Then comes the ever-new slant which links great suffering to great love...kinda like they are one. Uh-oh.
Spiritual growth takes us still deeper, and we see that we unknowingly live that answered prayer, a life of contemplation, at all times.
I've been talking, thinking, analyzing...even growing...but I am at the bare beginning of realizing, first, my life is contemplative, second, suffering to love is doing it right.
There...the hardest thing life is ever going to ask of us is that we change our mind, an old BFO made new. Ah. We are in the change-of-mind stage needed to attain and maintain great love and great suffering, the gifts for which we pray daily. Amazing.
....'radical amazement,' that sense of 'wow' about the world, which is the root of spirituality. -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, July 27, 2023
Thank you.
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