As compassion and sympathy flow from us to any person marginalized for whatever reason, wounds are bandaged—both theirs and ours. We’ll never bandage them all, nor do we need to, but we do need to get close to the wounds. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, September 23, 2023
I have known for some time this long and often painful initiation period of mine is me living between two planes...material consciousness and God consciousness.
Knowing that has been my great comfort but pain is pain and doesn't differentiate between good and not so good...but our spiritual condition can and does make a difference. There...tending to our spiritual condition no matter the material "facts" is the solution to all our woes.
On occasion I find myself mindlessly repeating I am alone and so ashamed with no context...it just runs with no backup whenever. Egoic consciousness will cling to that phrase as if it is a lifesaver; God consciousness, however, transmutes alone and ashamed to empathetic love.
Empathetic love invites us to get close to the wounds. As most everything spiritual in nature is, that is counterintuitive...if it hurts, backing off is the reasonable, or reasoning mind, solution.
We go beyond reason to get close to the wounds... to get close to God...where true healing occurs.
Thank you.
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