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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 623980" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Oh my. This is so on point. I love this "there are no dead ends. Everything can be transmuted and everything can be used." Amazing words and it brings us closer to the answer to that age-old question: Why does God allow bad things to happen? What a journey this life is. He could have just made us all automatons. He could have! But he didn't. </p><p></p><p>And this: "You realize that God uses the bad for good..."</p><p></p><p>We are there: "Sooner or later, life is going to lead you (as it did Jesus) into the belly of the beast, into a place where you can’t fix it, you can’t control it, and you can’t explain it or understand it. That’s where transformation most easily happens. That’s when you’re uniquely in the hands of God." We can call it whatever we want to---Higher Power, God, A doorknob (that is what they say in AA to unbelievers...just believe in SOMETHING outside yourself), Mother Nature, the Universe. I don't care, really, what you/we/others call this Power Greater Than Ourselves. </p><p></p><p>"Suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego." THIS IS SO TRUE, for me and for my difficult child and for everybody else. When I am completely, completely broken, THEN and only then can I give it all up. </p><p></p><p>"It has to be led to the edge of its own resources, so it learns to call upon the Deeper Resource of who it truly is, which is the God Self, the True Self, the Christ Self, the Buddha Self—use the words you want." </p><p></p><p>Oh my. This is amazing for me today. This is no coincidence, for me. This is what I call a Holy Coincidence. I just had to share this with you. </p><p></p><p>Just sit with this for a while. Sit with it and see what speaks to you. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Suffering Can Bring Us to God</p><p>Wednesday, April 9, 2014</p><p></p><p>The genius of Jesus’ ministry is that he reveals that God uses tragedy, suffering, pain, betrayal, and death itself, not to wound you, but in fact to bring you to God. So there are no dead ends. Everything can be transmuted and everything can be used.</p><p></p><p>After all, on the cross, God took the worst thing, the killing of God, and made it into the best thing—the redemption of the world! If you gaze upon the mystery of the cross long enough, your dualistic mind breaks down, and you become slow to call things totally good or totally bad. You realize that God uses the bad for good, and that many people who call themselves good may in fact not be so good. At the cross you learn humility, patience, compassion, and all of the Christian virtues that really matter.</p><p></p><p>Jesus says, “There’s only one sign I’m going to give you: the sign of the prophet Jonah” (Luke 11:29, Matthew 12:39, 16:4). Sooner or later, life is going to lead you (as it did Jesus) into the belly of the beast, into a place where you can’t fix it, you can’t control it, and you can’t explain it or understand it. That’s where transformation most easily happens. That’s when you’re uniquely in the hands of God.</p><p></p><p>Suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego. It has to be led to the edge of its own resources, so it learns to call upon the Deeper Resource of who it truly is, which is the God Self, the True Self, the Christ Self, the Buddha Self—use the words you want. It is who we are in God and who God is in us. At this place you are indestructible!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 623980, member: 17542"] Oh my. This is so on point. I love this "there are no dead ends. Everything can be transmuted and everything can be used." Amazing words and it brings us closer to the answer to that age-old question: Why does God allow bad things to happen? What a journey this life is. He could have just made us all automatons. He could have! But he didn't. And this: "You realize that God uses the bad for good..." We are there: "Sooner or later, life is going to lead you (as it did Jesus) into the belly of the beast, into a place where you can’t fix it, you can’t control it, and you can’t explain it or understand it. That’s where transformation most easily happens. That’s when you’re uniquely in the hands of God." We can call it whatever we want to---Higher Power, God, A doorknob (that is what they say in AA to unbelievers...just believe in SOMETHING outside yourself), Mother Nature, the Universe. I don't care, really, what you/we/others call this Power Greater Than Ourselves. "Suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego." THIS IS SO TRUE, for me and for my difficult child and for everybody else. When I am completely, completely broken, THEN and only then can I give it all up. "It has to be led to the edge of its own resources, so it learns to call upon the Deeper Resource of who it truly is, which is the God Self, the True Self, the Christ Self, the Buddha Self—use the words you want." Oh my. This is amazing for me today. This is no coincidence, for me. This is what I call a Holy Coincidence. I just had to share this with you. Just sit with this for a while. Sit with it and see what speaks to you. Suffering Can Bring Us to God Wednesday, April 9, 2014 The genius of Jesus’ ministry is that he reveals that God uses tragedy, suffering, pain, betrayal, and death itself, not to wound you, but in fact to bring you to God. So there are no dead ends. Everything can be transmuted and everything can be used. After all, on the cross, God took the worst thing, the killing of God, and made it into the best thing—the redemption of the world! If you gaze upon the mystery of the cross long enough, your dualistic mind breaks down, and you become slow to call things totally good or totally bad. You realize that God uses the bad for good, and that many people who call themselves good may in fact not be so good. At the cross you learn humility, patience, compassion, and all of the Christian virtues that really matter. Jesus says, “There’s only one sign I’m going to give you: the sign of the prophet Jonah” (Luke 11:29, Matthew 12:39, 16:4). Sooner or later, life is going to lead you (as it did Jesus) into the belly of the beast, into a place where you can’t fix it, you can’t control it, and you can’t explain it or understand it. That’s where transformation most easily happens. That’s when you’re uniquely in the hands of God. Suffering is the only thing strong enough to destabilize the imperial ego. It has to be led to the edge of its own resources, so it learns to call upon the Deeper Resource of who it truly is, which is the God Self, the True Self, the Christ Self, the Buddha Self—use the words you want. It is who we are in God and who God is in us. At this place you are indestructible! [/QUOTE]
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