On Finding Authentic Life

The real question is “What does this have to say to me?”

Those who are totally converted come to every experience

and ask not whether or not they liked it, but what

does it have to teach them. “What’s the message or gift in this for me?

How is God in this event? Where is God in this suffering?”

This is a prayer of unveiling, asking that the cruciform shape

of reality be revealed to us within the very shape

and circumstances of our own lives.

Father Richard Rohr

This is such a novel way to live, to actively greet each unfolding in our experience with great love, curiosity and kindness. And it is so contrary to the world's way of experiencing life.

Yet this is part and parcel of living a conscious life; it is seeing that the Divine is always communicating and revealing itself, attempting to commune with us in everything that happens both within or without.

And we are saying "yes" to communion each time we hit the pause button within and sincerely ask, "What are you trying to share with me? What is the revelation that this experience is holding out to me?"

So I urge you to say "yes" to everything that happens in your life.

Say yes to your thoughts.

Say yes to your feelings.

Say yes to your body.

Say yes to your life.

Say yes to what is as it is.

But don't leave it at that.

Hit you pause button as you soften and open and ask,

"What are you trying to share with me here?"

And feel yourself soften and surrender, yielding to the Everlasting Arms of Grace.