TO EVERYTHING A SEASON:
A time to weep and a time to laugh
Tuesday, September 27
Part of the reason we want to be God is that secretly we believe we have all the answers. Yet God is patient in calling us slowly to ever-greater wisdom. Usually God does this by making our self-constructed world fall apart. Our personal ¢â‚¬Å“salvation project ¢â‚¬ must always show itself to be almost totally wrong; in fact, the refusal to allow this falling apart is what creates legalism and moralism in religions.
The pain of things falling apart is called suffering, and it is one of God ¢â‚¬â„¢s ways to show us that life is always bigger than we imagine it to be. Faith is what sustains us through this suffering, and it allows us to discover that we can survive only be relying on a Much Greater Source.
God is always drawing us closer, blow by blow and bit by bit. And most of the time we do not even know it is happening.
From On the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men p. 61
Richard Rohr
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