Reluctant Growth

Usually, without growth being forced on us, few of us go willingly on the spiritual journey.

Richard Rohr

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Adversity

We hate it Lord

I mean really!

Isn’t being a child of the Ruler of All

Isn’t participating in the Sacred

Supposed to make everything easy?

Kind of like being in the Spiritual 1%?

And yet life happens

Big time!

Lord, help us to remember

That when adversity comes

We really have two choices

We can allow it to destroy us

Eat us up from inside

We can wallow in anger or self-recrimination

We can become less…..

Or we can go deep

Deep to the heart of who we are

And find You

In our radical vulnerability

We can cry for help

And reach out

Desperately for our heavenly parent!

Much as a child

No

Exactly as a child

And find comfort

And strength

And love

And

Yes

Growth

Thank you for transforming trial

into growth

perhaps reluctant growth

but growth

Remind us O God

To choose

Wisely

To choose

You

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“Those that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength”