TO GIVE GOD PERMISSION TO LOVE US

Through prayer and contemplation, we change from the inside—from a power position to the position of vulnerability and solidarity, which gradually changes everything. -- Father Richard Rohr

Blinding flash of the obvious: It is not the generic Gertrude I am resisting; it is my perception of Gertrude that I am resisting. 

In my quiet time, as my inner thoughts expand, I realize that it is never the person, place or thing we resist; it is our perception of that one that we resist. Now, a rest-of-life walkabout...how to live this?  

Fr Richard's Daily Meditations today gives the answer, plain and simple: Go within...our answer is ever within; specifically, how we get to what he describes as that deep place where we do not want to publicly expose, humiliate, or defeat our opponents. 

It was and is important to me to accept there are various ways and means for personal prayer and meditation. I'm a believer that their importance lies not in how we pray and meditate, but that we pray and meditate in whatever way we are led. 

My personal experience is that daily I need to make myself available (sit and wait on the Lord), trusting the Lord to carry the load...i.e., our consciousness forward, upward, down to the higher plane. 

A mini BFO...those are words, just words, unless and until we consciously...literally...in trust, sit and wait on the Lord. 

Over the years, I've made myself available in many different ways and means...and been led for the past thirty or so years to sit in my quiet space, turn my thoughts to thank you, and bring those thoughts back to thank you every time they go on their own walkabout. 

The good news...I have been changed. Not so much outside, other than by age itself, but my inner responses to life itself are the majority of the time without thought peaced today. The further good news...I long for this change to grow ever deeper as I continue to make myself available daily.

John Dear describes the importance of connecting with our core identity as children of God: We need to give God permission to love us.

Thank you.