When the words of [the Lord] are put into practice the kingdom comes -- Theologian Megan McKenna, "Fr Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations" November 6, 2025
My hard lesson a-learning: It is not only acceptable but necessary to put "the words of the Lord" into our own words. How else do we come to own them?
Just quoting the Bible, with no inner connection, or with only an eyebrows-up understanding, is akin to words on a blackboard...no matter how true their meaning, until we absorb them, make them our own, they are temporary to us.
It's like having a pricey sable coat in our closet that we refuse to wear lest we "wear it out." It is, in fact, useless in its primary purpose...our warmth in the wintertime...and for that matter it is useless in its secondary purpose, i.e., parading it for others to see and envy. The envy we seek is for us yet all we've done is own a warm coat that is useless in its primary purpose.
When the words of [the Lord] are put into practice the kingdom comes. When we use aright the words of the Lord (the tools of daily living), our inner life knows the kingdom which then is reflected in the world.
Thank you.
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