PART TWO:
Last week
The False Self
This week
The True Self
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Dear All of Us,
Kids are free to fantasize
and do they ever.
They play pretend to be
a ballerina, a truck driver,
a teacher, an astronaut
and creatively all sorts more.
As life roils on, comes the time
to be rather than pretend to be.
It's not role but self at issue.
It's the forthing of our
True Self.
It's the discovery that
we are hand crafted by God,
unique, indeed, one of a kind,
purposely created by God
to come alive in
wondrously unfolding ways,
clone and carbon of none.
It's the dawning insight
that we exist in God
and that God wants
to be present and particular
in us and through us for others.
Actually, it's discovery and acceptance.
That can get dicey - usually does.
There's the pressure to play a role, travel with the pack.
There's the fear that our God given distinctiveness will be dissed
and that society's bus won't stop for the likes of us.
It takes wisdom to see true self and courage to be true to self.
That in turn means being true to God and how God invites us to be.
Being who and how we are will get us in here and locked out there.
Most all of us take a break from real once in a while.
We slip and slide away from self true.
We get into phony baloney, play a role for the sake of
passion, power, privilege, popularity, possession.
It makes us sick and we made others sick.
Stupidity and sin.
Thank God for the grace
to recover self,
our True Self
as God forths
in and through us
OK, let's check this out.
Who's the most
for real person
we've every met?
How about
the runners up?
Those folks,
if not pure gold,
are high grade good.
They are the real deal.
They don't fake phony a
False Self
play pretend a self that isn't.
They relish and model
being their
True Self
They are God present,
in their unique person.
They are living a
Yours Truly
God gave it.
They got it.
They live it.
They give it.
They let
God happen
in them and
through them
as God wishes.
They're not wasting life
trying
"to find themselves"
or
create
an air brushed, botoxed
winner taking all
that gets to be "in" socially
while suffering loss of self
in the land of non-realness.
They realized that
God is their
Source and Substance
In for-real-prayer,
they let The Spirit
unwrap their gifts
and light their ways.
They understand that
God is a Divine Melody
sounding,
harmonizing uniquely
in and through
each person
and in all of
Creation
They've caught on that
God
is the
Ground of our Being,
that we be,
are grounded in
Being.
Richard Rohr
says it this way:
"The soul
or true self
is God's
"I AM"
continued
in me."
Let's take a week of weeks
with that one!
It is in God's deepest
that we are rooted
and flow forth.
Wonders flow upon wonders.
True Self
is also corporate -
church, government,
business, media,
athletics, academia,
institutions of every sort.
For them, as for us,
there is the
invitation
and
opportunity
to be
Right Real True
to voice and tone the
Divine Melody
uniquely
and in harmony
with all the rest of
Creation.
As already noted, it takes wisdom and courage to be true to our God given self.
There are those pesky temptations to float us phony, to sucker for The False Self.
They press us to clutch and cling to title, place, prerogative, possessions, power,
pleasure, control - to posture as if those things are the sum of who we are.
They steal our true self from us.
They deprive Creation of our special
God Presence.
They rupture discordant
The Divine Melody.
They put us
at odds with our
True Self
That hurts like hell.
It is hell for us
and
we make it so
for others.
To let God happen
through us
as God wills,
we go deep
into our deepest
in
God's deepest.
Little by little
we sense
our gift and way.
We are
Spirit Strengthened
right and real.
More accurately,
we let God
go intimate with us
and together
we go outward.
In that embrace
we unfold over
the seasons
of time as our
particular persona.
Rabi Zusa:
In the world to come
I shall not be asked:
"Why were you not Moses?"
I shall be asked:
"Why were you not Zusa?"
Meister Eckhart puts it best of all:
God asks only that
you get out of God's way
and let God be God in you.
Let's up the ante and
take a month of months
with that one!!
In the meantime
and all the time
may our life be
Yours Truly
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It's not a numbers game.
It's a God Gift.
It's wonder full
to have more and more
join in with us here.
This week we were gifted
by a large cohort of visitors
from
The United Kingdom
as well as folks from
many other lands
and another week
of many, many from
Singapore
WELCOME ALL
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For Prayerful Reflection
As there are
thousands upon thousands
of species,
so souls
unique and distinct.
Sensing my soul,
My True Self
how open am I
with God being present
in my person and way?
If my True Self is
quiet, chatty,
introverted, extroverted,
artistic, analytical,
- no matter what and how -
do I relish and live it
just as I am
in my particular way,
the way that God wants
to flow through me?
Do I allow negatives in me
and in our culture to trash
God's Presence and Action?
Or do I go different than
the flood of foolish fake
and be God Self True?
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Highly Recommended
Meister Eckhart: Diologue 1
Turning to the Mystics,
season 7
Albuquerque, NM:
Center for Action
and Contemplation,
2023
podcast,
MP3 audio
Also
New Seeds of Contemplation,
Thomas Merton
Chapter 5
Things In Their Identity
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Thanks for letting us all
be together here this week
at
frankly speaking
spirituality for the street
johnfrankshares.blogspot.com
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Love to All,
John Frank
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