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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 623439" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>This is another good one and in sync with what we are dealing with, within ourselves and our difficult children. To me, this is in line with the thinking about being stronger in the broken places. The light shines through the cracks in each of us. I think I had to be broken at this level in order to see the things I needed to work on, within myself. And I'm 57 years old! It didn't happen before now. Rohr talks about the two halves of our lives: first half and then second half. Often, we are so busy in the first half, just surviving, work, spouse, kids, laundry. We are running as fast as we can run, and we are so tired. It's in the second half of our lives that we can stop, take a good hard long look at ourselves and take stock. Many don't, according to Rohr. They just keep rockin' on , doing the same things they did in the first half. We, because of having to come to terms with severe, ongoing, unrelenting despair, watching those we love so very dearly, even more than we love ourselves, destroy themselves. And not being able to do one single solitary thing to do to stop it. They, and we, have a chance, right here, right now, to learn something profound about ourselves, about life and about God. Did God cause this? I don't believe for one single second that the All-Loving God wants this---I believe he is weeping with us. He is holding us as we despair. He is right here. And he is with our difficult children. He is standing beside them, walking down the street with them, in the abandoned house with them as they sleep. He is weeping with them as they struggle to survive. What do we make of this? That is what we are trying to figure out, and this board is such a blessed tool in helping me deal with this every day, every hour. Thank you all. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation</p><p></p><p>The Path of Descent</p><p></p><p>God Chooses the Little Ones</p><p>Monday, March 31, 2014</p><p></p><p>From the very beginning, God is able to use unlikely figures, and in one way or another, they are always unable, inept, unprepared, and incapable. The biblical text often shows them to be “powerless” in various ways: Sarah and Abraham, Moses, Rachel and Rebecca, David, Jeremiah, Job, and Jesus himself are some of the clearest examples. God didn’t pick the Egyptians; God picked the Israelites, an enslaved people in Egypt. In each case, there needs to be a discovery of a new kind of power by people who do not have power.</p><p></p><p>The bottom, the edge, the outsider, as we see in the Bible, is the privileged spiritual position. In a word, that is why the biblical revelation is revolutionary and even subversive. It is clearly disestablishment literature, yet has largely been used by establishments, which is at the heart of our interpretative problem.</p><p></p><p>The so-called “little ones” (Matthew 18:6) or the “poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:3), as Jesus calls them, are the only teachable and “growable” ones according to him. It seems to be God’s starting place, as it is in the Twelve-Step program, because until we admit “that we are powerless,” the Real Power will not be recognized, accepted or even sought.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Adapted from Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp. 89-90</p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>When I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 623439, member: 17542"] This is another good one and in sync with what we are dealing with, within ourselves and our difficult children. To me, this is in line with the thinking about being stronger in the broken places. The light shines through the cracks in each of us. I think I had to be broken at this level in order to see the things I needed to work on, within myself. And I'm 57 years old! It didn't happen before now. Rohr talks about the two halves of our lives: first half and then second half. Often, we are so busy in the first half, just surviving, work, spouse, kids, laundry. We are running as fast as we can run, and we are so tired. It's in the second half of our lives that we can stop, take a good hard long look at ourselves and take stock. Many don't, according to Rohr. They just keep rockin' on , doing the same things they did in the first half. We, because of having to come to terms with severe, ongoing, unrelenting despair, watching those we love so very dearly, even more than we love ourselves, destroy themselves. And not being able to do one single solitary thing to do to stop it. They, and we, have a chance, right here, right now, to learn something profound about ourselves, about life and about God. Did God cause this? I don't believe for one single second that the All-Loving God wants this---I believe he is weeping with us. He is holding us as we despair. He is right here. And he is with our difficult children. He is standing beside them, walking down the street with them, in the abandoned house with them as they sleep. He is weeping with them as they struggle to survive. What do we make of this? That is what we are trying to figure out, and this board is such a blessed tool in helping me deal with this every day, every hour. Thank you all. Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation The Path of Descent God Chooses the Little Ones Monday, March 31, 2014 From the very beginning, God is able to use unlikely figures, and in one way or another, they are always unable, inept, unprepared, and incapable. The biblical text often shows them to be “powerless” in various ways: Sarah and Abraham, Moses, Rachel and Rebecca, David, Jeremiah, Job, and Jesus himself are some of the clearest examples. God didn’t pick the Egyptians; God picked the Israelites, an enslaved people in Egypt. In each case, there needs to be a discovery of a new kind of power by people who do not have power. The bottom, the edge, the outsider, as we see in the Bible, is the privileged spiritual position. In a word, that is why the biblical revelation is revolutionary and even subversive. It is clearly disestablishment literature, yet has largely been used by establishments, which is at the heart of our interpretative problem. The so-called “little ones” (Matthew 18:6) or the “poor in spirit” (Matthew 5:3), as Jesus calls them, are the only teachable and “growable” ones according to him. It seems to be God’s starting place, as it is in the Twelve-Step program, because until we admit “that we are powerless,” the Real Power will not be recognized, accepted or even sought. Adapted from Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, pp. 89-90 Gateway to Silence: When I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:10) [/QUOTE]
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