A Gift
- Alice Wyatt
- Jul 22, 2024
- 1 min read
God is Love
God is Good
God makes ALL things Beautiful in Time
or not
a choice
control - let go
fear - trust
collapse - expand
a choice
not, a knowing, a belief, a dogma
just a choice
… but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Joshua 24:14-15
the gift of a choice brings me to my knees in gratitude
It struck me on reading your poem that it ties in nicely with this contemplation from Richard Rohr. "No life is immune from suffering. When we’re in solidarity with people facing pain, injustice, war, oppression, colonization—the list goes on and on—we face immense pressure to despair, to become angry or dismissive. When reality is split dualistically between good and bad, right and wrong, we too are torn apart. Yet when we’re broken, we are most open to contemplation, or nondual thinking. We’re desperate to resolve our own terror, anger, and disillusionment, and so we allow ourselves to be led into the silence that holds everything together in wholeness.
"The contemplative, nondual mind is not saying, 'Everything is beautiful,' even when…