That is one thing that is getting through this hard head of
mine, so many of the great spiritual truths appear to be paradoxical. "It
is only when I am weak, it is then that I am strong" (Have not got the hang of that one yet. Work
in progress ?) "Faith is a journey
into uncertainty, not certainty." "It is only in dying that I am born
to eternal life." We have to lose
to win." "In every success is sown
the seeds of failure. In every failure
is sown the seeds of success" etc. etc. etc. etc. I am sure you have at least one paradox with
which you are struggling to make sense. That
is G R E A T. ( teed ?) Embrace the
journey into uncertainty which is the paradoxical journey. Sad to say that in the beginning there is no
great comfort in the journey, but then giving birth is not a walk in the park. The embrace of our paradoxes contains the
stretching necessary for the healthy birthing of who we really are. Not who we would like to be, supposed to be, or
expected to be. Birthing is about the
birthing of our true self and risking the reaction of fear and anger of the
false self. As we all know, or coming to
understand, this conflict results in living a messy life. That is the mortal
combat we are all faced with as we live each day, one now-moment at a time. Be rest assured we are safe within, the truth
of each moment. It is "when we rest
in truth we rest in God."
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