Don’t rush, even though you’ll be tempted to see these times of spiritual dryness and aspiration as a mistake, a sign of failure you want to put behind you. Instead, slow down and hold this moment as an opportunity to express and strengthen spiritual desire. -- Brian D. McLaren, Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, May 21, 2023
Seeing these times of spiritual dryness as a mistake, I'm convinced is the egoic mind's power hold over us. Leaning on reason, we can only understand spiritual dryness as a mistake...we must be doing something wrong to be in this hurting hold even while we are praying desperately for God to come to our aid.
It is hard to accept but true...going to God for our idea of aid is going in the wrong direction. We recall learning that going to God for is the building block for self-determined objectives.
We have a want, we believe it is a need, we figuratively fall to our knees praising God lavishly and begging him to stop our pain. To prove our sincerity, we add Thy will, not mine, be done.
Instead, slow down and hold this moment as an opportunity to express and strengthen spiritual desire.
Yes, but. That does not make a lick of sense.
Our tiny slice of divine wisdom leads us to a writing of Fr Richard: Humans often end up doing evil by thinking we can and must eliminate all evil, instead of holding it, suffering it ourselves, and learning from it....
Realizing evil represents our pain, we give up all hope of relief from that pain. Feeling hopeless, disgruntled...not to mention unwanted, unneeded, unloved, and unappreciated...we surrender.
Totally unbeknownst to us, we are now heading in the right direction. Away from self-will, toward God's will, and we come to born again realized in a new light. We are born again in consciousness...this is the road to higher consciousness...dying to self, born again in Self.
The infinite love of God can come welling up, and something of the depth dimension can begin to shine through in our dilemmas. -- psychotherapist James Finley, Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, May 23, 2023
Thank you.
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