We have created an artificial divide or dualism between the spiritual and the so-called non-spiritual. This dualism is precisely what [has been revealed] as a lie....matter and spirit have never been separate....these two seemingly different worlds are—and always have been—one. -- My paraphrase from Fr Richard's Daily Meditation of January 13, 2017
When first I read that, in 2017, I was stunned...I even wrote that it turned my whole material mind vs. spiritual mind upside down. According to me then, they were two separate things, and life was about rising above the material to live in the spiritual.
The date is of interest to me only because it is a lovely example of how long it takes, having realized something from our eyebrows up, to then move it to our as-we-breathe understanding. I eyebrows-up knew that to be true on reading it...my belief in my oft-referenced the Father and I are one no doubt had its basis in that.
I grinned at my knee-jerk reaction this morning...I felt like I'd never heard of that before. Yet, what a comfort...this is right at the proverbial seven years it takes for change to cement itself within. I have many examples of learning, believing, doing...then backsliding as if I'd never learned. I have made peace with that as my way of making a truth my own.
In general, coming to believe unto doing our new belief is not a one-shot deal...we read of the miracle happening but the one to whom it happened has already been declared a saint. Who's kidding whom? Sainthood is not our path to walk...in this world at any rate.
But here's my today's proof...it has been growing within me, settling in, making itself at home. Now, seven years later, I see me living the fact comfortably the majority of the time...progress, not perfection, being our road to love and laughter.
Thank you.
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