Should we claim spiritual insight or clarity due to birthright, experience, or education?
Gosh no!
Is there some special mental skill or knack that enhances our spiritual capacity?
Gosh no!
Is there something of value to be found in our own words that will engender internal change or growth?
Gosh no!
Do we encounter souls that allow us to learn from their insights, skills, and experience?
Gosh yes!
When we listen with heart and mind to the lessons wrought from lives, honed by their unique path in life, do we feel the possibilities of change within ourselves?
Gosh yes!
It is said that every person we meet is a letter from the divine. Some creased, written covered in tea stains, worn over time from repeated handling with last-minute additions scribbled in the margin. When encountering any soul find something of worth within. Some wisdom they have gained from suffering or from actions they have undertaken in service to others. Even if you find them bereft of every gift normally given to a human, destitute of personal graces or material means draw close and ask them about their life’s journey. Are such lessons from the poor and humble infinitely better than the prattling of the powerful and the rich?
Gosh yes!
Does the quality of any letter depend on its letterhead, embossed in gold with a fancy address and ornate seal?
Gosh no!
Somewhere in the grace of listening, we grow in empathy and awareness. Cynical analysis will not suffice only kindly acceptance befits the listener. Can progress result?
Gosh Yes!
Should we be grateful to these letters of the divine, hidden in simple garb?
Gosh yes!
Does the quality of our response to such human letters become a measure of the Divine mercy we ultimately receive?
Gosh yes!
‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
Matthew 25.40
