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Only love can know love,\u00a0<\/strong>only mercy can know mercy, only the endless mystery I am to myself is ready for God\u2019s Infinite Mystery. <\/em><\/p>\n When I can stand\u00a0in mystery\u00a0(not knowing and not needing to know and being dazzled by such freedom), when I don\u2019t need to split, to hate, to dismiss, to compartmentalize what I cannot explain or understand, when I can radically accept that \u201cI am what I am what I am,\u201d then I am beginning to stand in divine freedom (Galatians 5:1).<\/em><\/p>\n We do not know how to stand there on our own. Someone Else needs to sustain us in such a deep and spacious place. This is what the saints mean by our emptiness, our poverty and our nothingness. They are not being negative or self-effacing, but just utterly honest about their inner experience. <\/em><\/p>\n God alone can sustain me in knowing and accepting that I am not a saint, not at all perfect, not very loving at all\u2014and in that very recognition I can fall into the perfect love of God. <\/em><\/p>\n Remember Jesus\u2019 first beatitude: \u201cHow happy are the poor in spirit, theirs\u00a0is\u00a0the kingdom of God\u201d (Matthew 5:3). How amazing is that? I think this might just be the description of salvation and perfect freedom. They are the same, you know.<\/em><\/p>\n Richard Rohr<\/a><\/p>\n From\u00a0Daily Meditation,\u00a0<\/a>October 17, 2014 [I reformatted the paragraphs]\n<\/p>\n Adapted from\u00a0Adapted from\u00a0Holding the Tension: The Power of Paradox<\/a><\/em>, disc 2
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