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From God Never
Hurries: ‘Offer it up’ was a phrase I
was taught early and reverted to throughout my life. Now I wonder how many times I avoided
addressing serious problems with those words?
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Offering it up can be an evasive strategy to not address real
problems. But this weekend, as I walked
the narrow winding path in the woods that gives me solace, I was reminded all
truth is paradoxical, both/and, and so I did offer up a hurt and disappointment
I was having a hard time shaking and it brought me real relief.
And that led me to the question of powerlessness and power,
which is being addressed this week in Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and
Contemplation’s daily online meditations exploring the spirituality of Bill
Wilson’s twelve-step program for alcoholics.
The deep paradoxical truth offered so far is the need to admit our
powerlessness before we can realize our own individual power—the spirituality
of imperfection—how we learn to love one another and ourselves.
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