I suppose there is no more counterintuitive spiritual idea than the possibility that God might actually use and find necessary what we fear, avoid, deny, and deem unworthy. This is what I mean by the “integration of the negative.” Yet I believe this is the core of Jesus’ revolutionary good news.... "Richard Rohr Daily Meditation," January 19, 2025
I've written about that before...probably more than a couple of times...yet it speaks to me louder each time I am met with it.
I recall when the still small voice first came to me with you gotta find the good in this bad situation, and I knew that to be a direct message to me from my own Higher Power, i.e., God. That was many years ago.
It is the mystical realization of that fact that turns us around...heads us in the right direction which at first feels like the wrong direction.
As a young teen, I realized that I had a different daily pattern to live by. God's gift was the vital point: I knew and accepted that I could not set the new pattern for me; I could only live it as It presented Itself to me.
That was my first glimpse of the New Way. Over the years, that led to my knowing...knowing when I am doing God's will, God's way...when conversely this is ego's choice.
When...the pearl beyond price. No greater gift.
Thank you.
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