The deep self seeks something more radical and intense from life, and longs to be united with its Source. This is the monk within.-- Beverly Lanzetta, Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation, September 23, 2024
For my very own clarification: I identify with Lanzetta's post in today's Daily Meditation...I mean, I really identify. My recent "new mind" is described to a T, and called "authentic;" however, there is that discomforting, thus disqualifying to me, "monk." As identified in the dictionary, monk is a religious man period end of discussion.
I usually do not get hung up on gender words...God and Christ are male to me, but if female or neutral or whatever to others, fine by me. But the word "monk," "the monk within," just does not sit comfortably with me.
I'm going with whatever identifier flows from my brain to my fingers as I type...I've already made more of it than it matters. I doubt God cares what we call him as long as we do call him.
Recently with my new mind coming forth, I have pondered, written, thought, talked about this inner knowing, urging me to dig deeper...inviting me to find It. Which I thought I had with the gift of the new mind...now, as I read and identify so completely with Lanzetta this morning, I feel gobsmacked and nonplussed.
Apparently, I have only just begun...again! This is the way of still more spiritual growth...we learn it anew with every backward step forward and every downward step upward!
I will read Lanzetta again and again...and relearn something completely new each time. I feared as I started this journey that I would be bored...what's to learn after you come to believe that there is a God and he's got our back, I thought.
We learn again, and it is new each time, deeper at a higher level...higher at a deeper level: Love and laugh.
Thank you.
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