Center for Action and Contemplation ~ Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation: ”You Need to Be Shoved” ~ Sunday, 27 October 2013
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Sixth Theme: The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines (Process).
“You Need to Be Shoved”
Meditation 39 of 51
Creativity and newness of life have a cost, and the cost is what appears to look like death. But really it is not. It is just letting go of one thing to make room for another thing. Loss is always perceived as an enemy or affliction, and looks like what we don’t want. Somehow to embrace loss, spiritually speaking, is to achieve something more and something bigger. Some form of positive dying invariably allows us to be united with what is Larger Reality, but of course we never know that ahead of time.
So if you spend your whole life avoiding dying, the spiritual teachers would say you will never get there. Meditate on the phrase Jesus gave us, “Unless the grain of wheat dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it bears much fruit” (John 12:24). That quotation is about as counterintuitive as you can get. Rationally I cannot prove that to you. You have to walk through it. You have to experience it to know that it is in fact true and true for you. Frankly, none of us go there until we are shoved.(Adapted from The Art of Letting Go: Living the Wisdom of Saint Francis (CD) The Daily Meditations for 2013 are now available in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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(505) 242-9588
cac.org
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