Season of Forgiveness
Connect with our community
  • Home
  • On Forgiveness
  • LIFEwork
  • Lighter Side
  • About
  • Contact

Finding what's found

1/5/2016

0 Comments

 
​It happened again. My son shuffled into the kitchen, “I can’t find my keys. They were in the bowl by the door, but the bowl’s been moved.” He returns to look again. “Oh, here they are.”
 
What he desired was there all the time.
​Whenever we struggle with questions such as “Where is my compassion?” or “How can I forgive?” we seek to awaken what’s already there. We need look no further than our own inner selves.
 
Indeed, the fact that we seek compassion or forgiveness means we’re on the right path. Richard Rohr says, “I am, at least in part, the very thing I am seeking.” He says that we cannot find what we desire out there until we first awaken it in here. “What you seek is what you are.”
 
Eventually, we reach out to others. Each act (offering mercy, compassion, forgiveness) becomes a redemptive act for us as well – a simultaneity echoed in the Prayer of St. Francis:
 
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
 
So, continue to seek – reaching out, deepening your experience. And, when frustrated with what seemingly cannot be found, remember that it’s already found. It simply needs to be awakened.
 
Quote
There are numerous entry points to the eternal wisdom of the heart, which can be called “the gates of awakening.” Each gateway is a doorway to ourselves, a doorway to the truth. Jack Kornfield
 
Web
Here is a brief excerpt on The Gates of Awakening from Jack Kornfield’s book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry (read now)
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Subscribe to blog
    For Email Marketing you can trust.

    About us...

    Season of Forgiveness encourages and equips people to live happier, healthier, more productive lives through understanding and acceptance.

    Archives

    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    Dec-Jan 2014

    Dec-Jan 2013


    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly