BEYOND GRATEFUL...BLESSED

 ....pain is physical discomfort, but suffering comes from our resistance, denial, and sense of injustice or wrongness about that pain. -- Fr Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, July 5, 2023 

This gives proof of truth to resist not evil, a quote from the Bible, which makes no sense to the reasoning mind. I probably wrestled with that quote, resist not evil, longer and harder than with any other teaching presented to me. 

I kept coming back to: It does not make a lick of sense. Truth to tell, there isn't a boatload of truth in the Bible that does make sense to the reasoning mind...virgin birth? Uh-huh. 

To me, that's paradox, and accepting paradox for a learning tool has opened my mind...which has opened my life. I now accept...or do not resist...a questionable statement or theory. I kinda let it explain itself to me rather than breaking a sweat trying to disprove it. 

This has proven to be an invaluable tool for my acceptance. My first thought is no longer, I doubt that...it is now that may be so. That way I can let it perc awhile to see what comes, and what comes is rarely what my first thought was. I don't always accept it, but it's usually for an entirely different reason than my first thought presented.

Truth to tell, that is precisely how I came to accept Jesus...I'm not the Jesus-freak I feared I'd become if I let him in at all, but I've found nothing to reject in his thoughts, words and deeds. For which I am beyond grateful...blessed is the word.

Thank you.