Our value cannot be changed; we can't get more of it or lose any of it. We can't get more of it from people or lose it at the whim of an angry insult.
It would make sense to isolate oneself in order to really be in union with God, away from all the mess that people create. It would be simpler, perhaps even to such an extent that personal development in certain areas could grow much more fully than otherwise. But, it turns out, our calling is to others, not just God.
Carrying out interactions with others is fulfilling a calling in obedience, including all the fears involved. How different the outlook when all the difficulties involved in this journey suddenly become a cost of privilege; the fear of people is no jail sentence in itself, but rather a variety of bumps in the road of freedom. We've confused the nature of traveling with prisoner's chains and have in that trade imprisoned ourselves between walls as strong as we allow them to be.
When the misconceptions of the mind are allowed to hold power over doing, self becomes the biggest obstacle to doing great things; even an open field can look like a prison to the one who seeks a dark closet.
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