Nothing could be further from the truth, of course, that God plays by anyone's rules but His own, but that was all we could see and it helped us build our container. It helped to secure the foundation of our belief that there is, indeed, God and an eternity to which we are headed.
Now that nothing can rip us from that belief, can we trust that same God to carry us into a bigger slice of His infinite view? Can we hold His hand and allow Him to carry us into the scary and uncharted waters of other ways people call on Him, believing that He wants them to arrive at His destination as much as He desires our arrival?
Such a notion requires an expanded trust in God.
Rohr says:
We are often so attached to our frame, game, and raft that it becomes a substitute for objective truth, because it is all we have! Inside such entrapment, most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are (p.148).In that sentence, the emphasis is moved--the words remain unchanged. But there is a world of difference.
If we let God change our emphasis from our small world to His large world, Truth remains unchanged. But there is a difference in the world.
That difference is an embrace, and a movement, and a desire to grow together, leading each other to the Truth of Forgiveness that is Jesus, God's destination for all of us.
May your thinking move into the second half of life, for in the beauty of that place, you can now let everyone get there.
