Today will be a full day of pastoral visits, midday Eucharist and planning meetings. As I read Fr. Richard Rohr's words, it was clear they deepened what I wrote in my worship notes for this Sunday:
We live a long time in
order to become lovers. God is like a good parent, refusing to do our homework
for us. We must learn through trial and error. We have to do our homework
ourselves, the homework of suffering, desiring, loving, winning and losing, hundreds
of times.
Grief is one of the
greatest occasions of deep and sad feeling, and it’s one that is socially
acceptable. Most understand and want to walk with you in your grief. When we
lose a beloved friend, wife, husband, child, parent, or maybe a possession or a
job, we feel it is okay to feel deeply. But we must broaden that. We’ve got to
find a passion that is also experienced when we have it, not just when we’re losing it. And we have
it all the time. Don’t wait for loss to feel, suffer, or enjoy deeply. But the
grief process is still a marvelous teacher and awakener; for many men, in
particular, it is the only emotion that shakes them to their core.
May the passion of God's love awaken me, Lord, to the bounty of joy and suffering within me and all around me.
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