TO OVERCOME RESISTANCE, LOVE

 Mini blinding flash: 'Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me'...they do not punish, they enlighten.

I found my head totally entangled with an opinion of mine this morning. An opinion for the good of my Fellowship, adverse to a non-member taking dishonest advantage of the Fellowship. When I heard me thinking of the various heavy-hitters I could call in to back me up, a glimmer of light clicked on, with your resistance is your bane coming through. 

I let that perc as I journaled, and shortly that pinpoint of light opened a blinding flash of the obvious: You need to overcome your resistance with love. 

I was thrilled from my toes to my nose to have such direct instruction...and clearly not by my thinking...gave me leave to change my mind, to upgrade my opinion as it were. I realized that I needed inside help, as in, how, in the name of God and all the sainted popes, do I love this?

Came the clarification: Still more spiritual growth is inviting me to go higher more deeply...first in  importance to my reasoning mind is to acknowledge the problem to the other, that their actions represent a potential but real harm to the Fellowship. Second, for my peaced mind, make my point lovingly without anger but with a spirit of love. This can only be done by trust in the grace of God and the Fellowship itself. 

All of this is God's job, he does it perfectly, we just need to get out of  stay with him in his way and let him. Ah, another still more spiritual growth level of learning.

If you want a better world, tell a better story, even about the possibility of embodying justice without vengeance...restorative consciousness. -- Gareth Higgins, Fr Richard's Daily Meditation, January 31, 2024

Thank you.