Mother Siluana on accepting reality
Only by accepting ourselves and accepting reality the way it is can we make room for God.
I will share a great mystery with you: the first step in the blessed joy is placing ourselves before God and accepting - accepting ourselves and reality the way they are, so that we can offer them to the Lord for healing and growth. We are unhappy because we reject reality and choose to live in the imaginary world of “should.” Only by accepting ourselves and accepting reality the way it is can we make room for God.
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Accepting reality and blessing those who take part in it, and not accepting and blessing suffering as a lifestyle: when we accept and bless a reality, God Himself, the Source of blessing and the Author of the Commandment, enters into that reality and turns it into something else, into a meeting place with Him, a door of entrance into His Joy! Suffering is nothing but that moment when we entrust ourselves to His loving hands - hands that are pierced, however, by the nails of the crucifixion. Fear makes us run away from the cross; it makes us imagine that accepting the cross would mean great and permanent suffering. This is the work of the father of lies!
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When you or I, or anybody who is thirsty for Joy and love, accept reality as it is, we free ourselves from “reading” it according to the schemas that are “written,” embodied in the part of our brain that is hidden and not known to our free will. In those moments, lacking any support from the past, vulnerable but alive, we call God and bless, despite any external proof.
You have anchored yourself in the inner faith and in the hope in all that is unseen but promised by the Lord. If you “read” the things that happen in your life through the schemas of the past, they will continue to be what they were! But if you read them according to the law of the Spirit, they will become what your mind cannot even conceive.
(from an upcoming book with daily thoughts from Mother Siluana Vlad)
If you want to read more of Mother Siluana’s words, the book “Offering Ourselves, We Enter Into His Joy” is available on Amazon as paperback and ebook.