Good morning…
“As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Capetown, ‘We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!” we return again to the Rohr quote guiding us this week. Then we quietly move forward to explore with God the next set of words.
“I believe that God gives us our soul,” Rohr continues, “our deepest identity, our True Self, our unique blueprint, at our own ‘immaculate conception.’ Our unique little bit of heaven is installed by the Manufacturer within the product, at the beginning! We are given a span of years to discover it, to choose it, and to live our own destiny to the full. If we do not, our True Self will never be offered again, in our own unique form – which is perhaps why almost all religious traditions present the matter with utterly charged words like ‘heaven’ and ‘hell.’ Our soul’s discovery is utterly crucial, momentous. and of pressing importance for us and for the world. We do not ‘make’ or ‘create’ our souls; we just ‘grow’ them up. We are clumsy stewards of our own souls. We are charged to awaken, and much of the work of spirituality is learning how to stay out of the way of this natural growing and awakening. We need to unlearn a lot, it seems, to get back to that foundational life which is ‘hidden in God’ (Colossians 3:3).” (Falling Upward, ix-x)
Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value]. For you died [to this world], and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God (Colossians 3:1-3, AMP).
…Sue…
