Today we will continue with some ideas by Michael Polanyi, in Richard Rohr's book, "The Enneagram."
Polanyi...said all truthful knowing had to acknowledge a tacit knowing (which is what religion means by faith, according to Polanyi), and this tacit knowing has something to do with trusting it, allowing it, believeing in it and not stating with fear, suspicion, rejection. In other words, only those who love rightly see rightly! Only those who are situated correctly in the correct universe can read the situation with freedom and grandeur. Text plus full context equals genius. Only the true believer is at a cosmic level of peacefulness: reality is good, the world is coherent, it is all going somewhere. That allows the believer to move ahead without a rejecting or superior attitude. such people are constantly learning and always teachable and will likely do good things. A secular name for faith, I am sure.
There is such a need to let things unfold so that we can begin to hear and see what is really at hand. We live in such an anxious time, though, it is quite difficult to give ourselves the breathing room to trust what will come. Unfaith - wants answers...now. And yet, there are no answers when we really need to learn how to look and hear and abide within the contexts of our lives before we press on with our own agendas. I find that I often do not give myself the time to "allow" or to "trust." But that is such an important place to go if I am going to be able to see the gift of a situation and/or the people in those situations. When I will not go there, that is...live by faith...live within a promise...live unafraid of what presents itself, I'm reactive and easily won over by less than the truth. On the other hand, there is a great opportunity waiting for all of us when we start our relationship and our day with an openness to a context larger than the one I try to build and maintain on my own.
Connection: I return to an often used exercise. Breathe...and then again. Listening and looking and allowing things to take place without needed to control them as we would have them go...can be a wonderful way to walk through this day. Breathe.
The grandeur of you Reign, O God, is beyond our seeing. And yet, it is there in front of us and all around. We need your Spirit of Life to rest upon us so that we will give ourselves the time to breathe in your life and take time to walk into your arriving Reign. Amen.
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