Be Fed

Van Gogh's Worn Out

I have not had the chance to sit down and write lately (due to some of the minor inconveniences of life) and I am not sure when in the next month or two I am going to.  However, until I can get back to writing I thought I might post quotes periodically for all you contemplative junkies out there, and also so I can feel like I am doing something.  So, to kick it off here is something from Rohr that is nothing short of profound:   

"Only love can know love, only mercy can know mercy, only the endless mystery I am to myself is ready for God’s Infinite Mystery.

When I can stand in mystery (not knowing and not needing to know and being dazzled by such freedom), when I don’t need to split, to hate, to dismiss, to compartmentalize what I cannot explain or understand, when I can radically accept that “I am what I am what I am,” then I am beginning to stand in divine freedom (Galatians 5:1).

We do not know how to stand there on our own. Someone Else needs to sustain us in such a deep and spacious place. This is what the saints mean by our emptiness, our poverty and our nothingness. They are not being negative or self-effacing, but just utterly honest about their inner experience.

God alone can sustain me in knowing and accepting that I am not a saint, not at all perfect, not very loving at all—and in that very recognition I can fall into the perfect love of God."   -Richard Rohr