We may even prefer a pessimistic certainty to a potentially optimistic uncertainty. —Brian McLaren, "Richard Rohr Daily Meditation," November 22, 2025
From my own experience, I know that to be true of me...I prefer to know, quick, fast and in a hurry the outcome of any unknown to me. I recall in high school saying that I'd rather be told bad news than to be told to "wait and see."
The hard lesson we are learning is that staying in the mental process of spiritual growth is well-nigh impossible; being lifted above the mental is the pearl beyond price.
We must go beyond reason to love.
Reason is the go-to of the material mind, and the material mind is not naturally attuned to spiritual growth. It's when the material mind gets shucked of its shields by God that our spiritual growth blossoms...and we go beyond reason to love.
We are beginning, barely beginning, to realize that life itself is beyond reason. Now...now!...our inner being, the place where our Father lives, has opened.
We have been moved beyond reason, and we live now in gratitude.
Thank you.
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