Have you ever been loved well by someone? So well that you are secure that person will receive you and will forgive your worst fault? That’s the kind of security the soul receives from God. When the soul lives in that kind of security, it is no longer occupied with technique. We can go back and do the rituals, the spiritual disciplines, but they are no longer idolatrously followed. We don’t condemn people who don’t do it our way. All techniques, rituals and spiritual disciplines are just fingers pointing to the moon.
But the moon is the important thing, not the pointing fingers.
~ Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs
We are entering the end of Lent and Holy Week is fast approaching. This is a Christian’s most sacred time, when all our pretensions should be stripped away, and we reach for the poor, the humble, the hurting both outside and inside ourselves.
Don’t get distracted by the pointing fingers. Everything we need is inside of us. Just look to the moon.
Because what is the moon?
A bright light shining in the darkness.
Full Of Graces 