When God looks at us, God can only see “Christ” in us. Yet it’s hard—for us!—to be naked and vulnerable and allow ourselves to be seen so deeply. It is hard to simply receive God’s loving and all-accepting gaze. We feel unworthy and ashamed. The very essence of all faith is to trust the gaze and then complete the circuit of mutual friendship. “The eye with which I see God is the same one with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love,” as Meister Eckhart says.
When you go to your place of prayer,
don’t try to think too much or manufacture feelings or sensations.
Don’t worry about
what words you should say or what posture you should take.
It’s not about you or what you do.
Simply allow Love to look at you—and trust what God sees!
God just keeps looking at you and loving you center to center.
Hinduism called this darshan, the practice of going to the temple—
not to see the deity, but to allow yourself to be fully and lovingly seen.
Try reversing the engines.
This reversal is the triumph and victory of grace.
Gateway to Silence:
Everything—yes, everything—belongs.
Everything—yes, everything—belongs.
~R. Rohr
are hanging on the wall right behind us!)
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