When you don't split everything up according to what you like and what you don’t like, you leave the moment open, you let it be what it is in itself, and you let it speak to you.
--Richard Rohr
I've been thinking a lot about the idea that everything is revelation. The implications are enormous. For one it seems to me that in spite of our reservations about what Jesus meant when he said, "Do not judge lest you be judged," it could really be true that we don't need to judge. If everything is revelation then we only need to receive the gift of it. Of course we should notice our resistance (our judgment), but then we need not waste any time wishing we could change what already exists and move, as soon as possible, into an open, receptive position, confident in God's compassionate presence and redemptive activity. God's Kingdom is creatively at work in the very things we would like to judge as unacceptable.
--Richard Rohr
I've been thinking a lot about the idea that everything is revelation. The implications are enormous. For one it seems to me that in spite of our reservations about what Jesus meant when he said, "Do not judge lest you be judged," it could really be true that we don't need to judge. If everything is revelation then we only need to receive the gift of it. Of course we should notice our resistance (our judgment), but then we need not waste any time wishing we could change what already exists and move, as soon as possible, into an open, receptive position, confident in God's compassionate presence and redemptive activity. God's Kingdom is creatively at work in the very things we would like to judge as unacceptable.
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