It could be that Jesus' will lead us to a place where we ourselves don't even know any more whether we're holy, where all we know is that we have to do what we have to do what we have to do, where we have to obey the word that we've heard in our heart. Often we don't even get the satisfaction of being in the right; and there's no security that everyone will agree with us.... this Gospel doesn't bless the existing system; it leads us to the edges where freedom might be found. It does so in such a way that we can return to the world, without being addictively dependent on it any more, so that we can return to the suffering and joys of this world, without letting ourselves be seduced by its false promises on either side.
Richard Rohr, The Simplicity of Living, pg. 143
ahhh... a sigh of relief. I love when someone else has words for what I feel that help take my wordlessness and make it expressible.
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