We are interrelated with Being Itself, participating in the very life of God, while living out one little part of that life in our own exquisite form.
Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation"The Common Wonderful"
"Your Life Is Not about You; You Are about Life"
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
The third message of the common wonderful: It is true that your life is not about you, but rather “Your life is hidden with Christ in God. He is your life, and when he is revealed, you will be revealed in all your glory with him” (Colossians 3:3-4).
All the truly great persons I have ever met are characterized by what I would call “radical humility.” They are deeply convinced that they are drawing from another source; they are instruments. Their genius is not their own; it is borrowed. We are moons, not suns, except in our ability to pass on the light. Our life is not our own, yet, at some level, enlightened people know that their life has been given to them as a sacred trust. They live in gratitude and confidence, and they try to let the flow continue through them. They know that “love is repaid by love alone,” as Thérèse of Lisieux said.
Your destiny and God’s desire are already written in your genes, your upbringing, and your natural gifts. It is probably the most courageous thing you will ever do to accept that you are just yourself. Only the original manufacturer can declare what the product—you—should be. Nobody else. “Even every hair of your head has been counted,” as Jesus puts it (Matthew 10:30). God chooses us into existence, and continues that choice of us every successive moment, or we would fall into non-being. We are interrelated with Essential Being, participating in the very life of God, while living out one little part of that life in our own exquisite form.
Paradoxically, I can say your life is precisely about you, but now you know who you really are, and can hold this fire without burning up and burning out.
Adapted from Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation, pages 157-161
Gateway to Silence: All shall be well.
The law was given to multiply our opportunities for falling.—-Romans 5:20
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