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Each Day Fall in Love
Each Day Fall in Love
Richard Rohr
Somewhere each day we have to fall in love with someone, something, some moment, event, phrase. Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart. Otherwise our hearts will move inevitably toward hardness. We will move toward cynicism, bitterness, fear and despair. That’s where most of the world is trapped and doesn’t even know it.
The world’s been in love with death so long that it calls death life. It tries to conjure up life by making itself falsely excited, by creating parties where there’s no reason to celebrate…. Yet the only way to experience joy is to give yourself to reality. Joy comes after you go that extra mile and offer yourself first-thing every day.
Ask the Lord to give you the grace to fall in love. Then you’ll see rightly because only when we are in love do we understand.
Source: The Passion of God and the Passion Within
Richard Rohr
Somewhere each day we have to fall in love with someone, something, some moment, event, phrase. Somehow each day we must allow the softening of the heart. Otherwise our hearts will move inevitably toward hardness. We will move toward cynicism, bitterness, fear and despair. That’s where most of the world is trapped and doesn’t even know it.
The world’s been in love with death so long that it calls death life. It tries to conjure up life by making itself falsely excited, by creating parties where there’s no reason to celebrate…. Yet the only way to experience joy is to give yourself to reality. Joy comes after you go that extra mile and offer yourself first-thing every day.
Ask the Lord to give you the grace to fall in love. Then you’ll see rightly because only when we are in love do we understand.
Source: The Passion of God and the Passion Within
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Richard Rohr: A Lenten Prayer
A Prayer to Avoid Entitlement
by Richard Rohr
The Jewish people have a beautiful prayer form, a kind of litany to which the response is always “Dayenu!” (It would have been enough!).
They list, one by one, the mirabilia Dei, the wonderful works of God for their people and themselves, and after each one, shout out DAYENU! As if to say, “How much is it going to take for us to know that God is with us?!” It builds satisfaction instead of feeding dissatisfaction.
If we begin our day with any notion of scarcity, not-enoughness, victimhood, or “I deserve,” I promise you the day will not be good–for you or for those around you. Nor will God be glorified.
Maybe we all should begin our days with a litany of satisfaction, abundance, and enoughness. God, you have given me another day of totally gratuitous life: my health, my eyes, my ears, my mind, my taste, my family, my freedom, my education, clean water, more than enough food, a roof over my head, a warm bed and blanket, friends, sunshine, a beating heart, and your eternal love and guidance.
To any one of these we must say, “And this is more than enough!”
(Adapted from a post to Fr. Richard’s blog, Unpacking Paradoxes, on January 30, 2012)
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Models of Surrender – Richard Rohr
MODELS OF SURRENDER
Why is it that Mother Teresa could stand up before crowds of thousands and repeat simple New Testament phrases and blow people away?!
She didn’t say anything new: “Jesus loves you,” she assured us. “We’re sons and daughters of God and we have to love Jesus’ poor.” Yet people walked out renewed, transformed and converted.
She wasn’t a priest. She wasn’t well educated. Her authority came from her lifestyle and her pure goodness.
Servanthood and foundational surrender are the true basis for teaching authority in the Church, much more than title, vestment, role, or office. Such lives have the authority of Jesus himself, and need no special ordination.
For more on this theme, please consider The Art of Letting Go:
Living the Wisdom of St. Francis with Fr. Richard Rohr (CD)
Prayer:
Let it be.
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Why is Christianity still so immature?
Question of the Day:
Why is Christianity still so immature?
All spiritual teachers tell us “DO NOT JUDGE.” For those of us raised in a religious setting, this is very difficult. In a strange way, religion gave us all a Ph.D. in judgmentalism. It trained us very early in life to categorize, label, and critique. It told us all about worthiness and unworthiness. This judgmental mind told us what is right and wrong, who is gay or straight, and who is good or bad. This sort of mind never creates great people, because everybody has to fit into our way of thinking. At an early age our grid was complete. We had decided who fit in and who did not fit in. We fashioned our own little world.
Christianity that divides the world in this manner and eliminates all troublesome people and all ideas different from our way of thinking cannot be mature religion. It cannot see the multiple gifts of each moment, nor the dark side that coexists with it. This mind does not lead us to awareness, and above all, this mind will find it impossible to contemplate. To practice awareness means you live in a spirit of communion; your world becomes alive and very spacious, and not divided by mere mental labels.
From Richard Rohr’s Jesus and Buddha: Paths to Awakening (CD)
Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush?
– E.J. Dionne
People often say with pride, “I’m not interested in politics.” They might as well say, “I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.”
— Martha Gellhorn, writer/journalist (1908-1998)
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”—Mother Teresa
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
– William E. Gladston
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. . . It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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NATURE AS MIRROR – -a Meditation
NATURE AS MIRROR
by Fr. Richard Rohr
Nature was a mirror of the soul for St. Francis of Assisi — a mirror for himself and a mirror for God. All this mirroring affected a complete change of consciousness in how he saw reality.
When Francis was a young man, he just loved to party. One night he left the party and looked up at the stars above Assisi. He stood there for a long time, and he was in awe of what he saw. He said, “If these are the creatures, what must the Creator be like?”
The outer world began to name the inner experience and the nature of God for Francis. It all became a two way mirror through which he could see God and also see his deepest soul.
Adapted from In the Footsteps of Francis webcast
Starter Prayer:
Be praised, my Lord,
through all your creatures.
basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
- Lech Walesa
from his Nobel Lecture
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What do I believe regarding how much Jesus knew and when he knew it?
(This was originally posted on April 1, 2010. I don’t know know about you, but it seems Easter felt kind of rushed this year, spring came a bit too early. I still have a lot of questions for God (personally) and I am still looking for answers. I need to go back and reflecy on some things. _ Ninure da Hippie)
Question of the Day:
What do I believe regarding how much Jesus knew
and when he knew it?
The “Suffering Servant” song read today (Isaiah 50:4-9) portrays the protagonist as a human being just like you and me. He does not know the outcome ahead of time, or his confidence would be in himself to pull it off; but he puts all his trust in Another: a “vindicator” who will “come to his help” (Isaiah 50:7, 9). This is Jesus’ cry from the cross, “Into your hands I entrust my spirit” (Luke 23:46).
We have done the believing community a mammoth disservice by so emphasizing Jesus’ divinity that his humanity was all but canceled out. Most Christians naively assume that Jesus did not really have to live faith or darkness as we do, that he knew everything from his youngest years. Yet Luke says “he grew in wisdom” (Luke 2:40). We cannot believe that his was a totally different brand of knowing than the rest of humanity. He was not just pretending to be human. Many scholars believe that it was only at the resurrection that Jesus’ human mind and divine consciousness became one. Until then, he “was like us in all ways, except sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
Knowing this, you are much better prepared to walk through the sacred days ahead with a Jesus who shares, suffers, and trusts God exactly as you and I must learn to do.“ He set his face like flint, trusting he would not be put to shame” (Isaiah 50:7).
Written during hermitage, Lent 2010, by Richard Rohr
Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush?
– E.J. Dionne
People often say with pride, “I’m not interested in politics.” They might as well say, “I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.”
— Martha Gellhorn, writer/journalist (1908-1998)
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”—Mother Teresa
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
– William E. Gladston
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Question of the Day: hy is the practice of awareness necessary?
Question of the Day:
Why is the practice of awareness necessary?To be aware is not just to be conscious of the many things around us. Scholars speak of objectless consciousness. We are not necessarily being aware of any particular thing, but being able to take in all that the situation offers without eliminating anything.
Now this does not come naturally to us. We have to work for this type of awareness. Meditation and contemplation help us to compartmentalize our “monkey-mind” which jumps from one observation to another, from one thought to another, and from one feeling to another with absolutely no real meaning. We have lived with this “monkey mind” so long that we take it as normative. This sort of thinking cannot access the great realities of love, freedom, infinity, suffering, eternity and God. This sort of thinking substitutes mere information about things for wisdom.
From Richard Rohr’s Jesus and Buddha: Paths to Awakening (CD)
Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush?
– E.J. Dionne
People often say with pride, “I’m not interested in politics.” They might as well say, “I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future.”
— Martha Gellhorn, writer/journalist (1908-1998)
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.”—Mother Teresa
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
– William E. Gladston
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. . . It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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