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Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation – Saturday, 28 December 2013 “Our Prayers
Create Us”
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation
Seven Themes of an Alternative Orthodoxy
Seventh Theme: Reality is paradoxical and complementary.
Non-dual thinking is the highest level of consciousness. Divine union, not
private perfection, is the goal of all religion (Goal).
“Our Prayers Create Us”
Meditation 50 of 52
When we celebrate New Year’s Day, and maybe
Easter too, we celebrate a symbolic rebirth of time. We somehow hope for God to
do new things with us and for us. We wait for the coming of grace, for the
unfolding of Mystery. We wait for the always-bigger Truth.
Such humble waiting and open-ended expecting
allows us to fall into what Thomas Merton called “a hidden wholeness.” One does
not create or hold onto such wholeness (holiness?) consciously—it holds onto
us! Our common code word for this hidden wholeness is quite appropriately
“God”! When we agree to love God, we are precisely agreeing to love everything.
When we decide to trust God, we are also deciding to trust reality at its
deepest foundation.
But we cannot just wait. We must pray too,
which is to expect help from Another Source. Our prayers then start both naming
us and defining us. When we hear our own prayers in our own ears and our own
heart, we start choosing our deepest identity, our biggest future, and our best
selves. We fall into our own hidden wholeness.(Adapted from Everything Belongs:
The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, page 154-The Daily Meditations for 2013 are
now available in Fr. Richard’s new book Yes, And . . . .)
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