Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Powerlessness, the state of the shipwrecked,
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
God’s much better role—which is to help you know what you really desire (Luke 11:13; Matthew 7:11).
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“Breathing Under Water” I built my house by the sea. Not on the sands, mind you; not on the shifting sand. And I built it of rock. A strong house by a strong sea. And we got well acquainted, the sea and I. Good neighbors. Not that we spoke much. We met in silences. Respectful, keeping our distance, but looking our thoughts across the fence of sand.
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The contemplative mind prays from a different sense of Who–I–am. It rests, and abides in the Great I AM, and draws its life from the Larger Vine (John 15:4–5), the Deeper Well (John 4:10–14).
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Wild need and desire took off before boundaries, strong identity, impulse control, and deep God experience were in place.2
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
He proudly and most often called himself a “son of man,”
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
God loves and respects freedom—to the final and full and riskiest degree.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
uses the active verb “became willing to make amends to them all” to help us see that it is always a process and must finally include all. To offer an apology in a way that can actually heal the other takes wisdom and respect for the other.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
prayer is an exercise in divine participation—you opting in and God always there!
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Suffering people can love and trust a suffering God, Only a suffering God can “save” suffering people, Those who have passed across this chasm can and will save one another.