Here All Along

Our thought for the day from Richard Rohr’s Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self is…

I promise you that the discovery of your True Self will feel like a thousand pounds of weight have fallen from your back. You will no longer have to build, protect, or promote any idealized self-image. Living in the True Self is quite simply a much happier existence, even though we never live there a full twenty-four hours a day. But you henceforth have it as a place to always go back to. You have finally discovered the alternative to your False Self…You are like Jacob awakening from sleep and [saying] “You were here all along, and I never knew it!” (Genesis 28:16) 

This is one of the things I find both comforting and inviting about our faith, i.e. God’s faithfulness. Like the prodigal son, off we go on our own, certain we know what we’re doing with our lives! So, we relate to God on a "Don't call me. I'll call you," basis. But we are doing this while living out of our ego-driven False Self...and the results speak for themselves.

Fortunately...we can go home. God even invites us to live there. God's faithfulness is always available to us. Taking this seriously is nothing short of life-changing in the most positive sense of the term.