The spiritual path is about being positioned on a path that causes you to face your fears, not protect you from them. What good does it do you to be given something ? anything ? that supports what is weak about you? That makes no sense whatsoever.
-Caroline Myss
I like Caroline Myss's work. I've never really gotten into her sacred contracts work or into her medical intuition, but she is a person who really understands the mystics. And I love St. Teresa of Avila so her reinterpretation of the Christian classic the Interior Castle for modern lives was really valuable to me.
I loved the quote above. Yes, religion and spirituality bring great solace and strength in times of trouble. They bring healing on many levels, and prayer is valuable. But they don't fix your life magically and make everything easy. God is NOT a cure-all and the purpose of religion and spirituality is not self-improvement or self-help. There is an apocryphal story circulating on the internet?about someone cutting open a cocoon and the caterpillar not being able to live and fly as a butterfly, because the struggle and small opening force the blood out of the body into the wings of a butterfly when emerging from a cocoon.
Now I'm not saying not to pray. I'm not saying not to pursue self-improvement and heal psychological wounding and self-sabotage, or go to therapy. What I'm saying is that I agree with Caroline Myss that it doesn't make sense that God would be an "enabler" or codependent. God rescuing us out of messes so we could get ourselves into the next one, over and over again, would be unhealthy.? God would want us us to learn and grow, even if that were painful dealing with our mistakes.
I asked the angels for insights and received the following:
Praying for protection doesn't mean that you should wander around in bad areas of town alone at night and have faith that nothing will happen to you, and praying for healing doesn't mean that you can be cured of cancer without surgery or chemotherapy. You are given tools and resources, including reason and common sense.
People of faith still die. They still grieve. They are widowed, they have children or animals die. They lose jobs. Their homes burn down. They make poor investments. But the power of faith, of prayer, of God alive within them, is that they move THROUGH what they face, with ease and grace. It may not be EASY, but there is ease. There is an inner strength that is there, resources that they didn't know were within them.
God is not holding you up so you don't fall so you're like a baby who never learns to walk because it never falls. No, God is supporting you so that you learn to walk, learn to run, and learn to help others walk, others run... The spiritual life is one of unfolding, of transformation, and answered prayer may not be what makes life easy but what makes you strong.
The spiritual life is one of value and presence and that inner whisper of the Divine that says "good for you--keep going--you're doing so well."
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