A difference between blessed and cursed stereotypes is a slippery one. No, it's not a difference in lanolin.
Blessings flow toward us and our response choice is to be thankful and pass the blessing on or to be thankful and hold on to it as long as possible. This is the slipperiness of holiness - to receive a blessing with thanksgiving and send it further along.
Whatever religious techniques we come up with to extend a blessing's presence, turns out to be counter-productive. At issue is not how much can be given away, but how easy it becomes to share that which is available.
Although the focus here is upon judgment, the larger dynamic is about passing a slippery blessing on - regardless of any judgment from any source. This shifts the conversation from a quantitizing consciousness to a qualitizing unconciousness. We use the externals to practice on but the game comes down to the internals that allow the externals to expand without increasing volitional energy.
This is the slipperiness of holiness - to receive a blessing with thanksgiving and send it further along.
ReplyDeleteThis is really beautiful. Thanks for your poetic and powerful reflections.