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On Appreciating
Deeper Processes Sadness
You can't do the healing without having the
feelings; you can't do the leaving until you complete the grieving.
I have discovered that sadness has a place
in my life … it has a job … it belongs … never would have considered that
before.
It lets you know that the old is passing …
it helps to make way for the new … whatever that is.
It is the Creator’s way to house clean I
suppose … most of us in our various childhoods balked at some time or other at
having to clean our rooms … it was seen as a hurtful, mean thing to have to do
… and now in the childhood of our spiritual awakening we balk at the process of
the spiritual house cleaning … the
business of nurturing for the soul because that too seems to be a hurtful
thing to do. Now I know how weeds feel
in the garden as they watch my wife approach with a spade in her hand.
It may be hurtful but …
Pain is not bad … it is just painful …
It
lets me know that my Creator is tiding up a bit … getting me ready for whatever
is next … there are days when I wish(ed) sincerely and most deeply that He
wasn’t so vigorous in His endeavors to tidy things up in me …
Sometimes
I just have to do what it is that needs to be done
… No
Matter What I Think …
Neil Douglas-Tubb(RCC)
Zen and the Art of Lost and Found
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