Constant failure at living is ironically and paradoxically what keeps us learning how to live is also true...the truth that lifts us higher into a deeper understanding, into the counterintuitive nature of life.
The counterintuitive nature of life is spiritual growth, plain and simple. It is the key that unlocks our reasoning mind's hold on us...specifically on our feeling of need to be in control of life. Our need/want to be in control is just our opinion based on our perception of our life...there is no Higher Power there.
Still more spiritual growth is our first need for there our search for God begins. Until we began to discern that our self-centered view of life would always keep us stuck in self, we held only material goals...for sex, society, security.
Success on the material plane is as far as most of us want. It takes that which we do not want, failure, usually a cataclysmic personal failure, to turn us around...to change our mind.
Our mind is changed from wanting big to seeking little...little, as in coming to understand that letting go, in truth losing, is the way we continue to learn to love and laugh. Since that is not an act of will, it can only be a gift of grace. It comes in God's time, and the harder we try to get it, the more elusive it seems.
There...proof of Fr Richard's constant failure at loving is ironically and paradoxically what keeps us learning how to love. And we get a glimmer of the spiritual meaning of love...it is life itself in the aura of God.
Thank you.
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