We fear
nothingness. That’s why we fear death, of course, which feels like nothingness.
Death is the shocking realization that everything I thought was me, everything I
held onto so desperately, was finally nothing (read Kathleen Dowling Singh’s
The Grace in Dying).
The nothingness
we fear so much is, in fact, the treasure and freedom that we long for, which is
revealed in the joy and glory of the Risen Christ. We long for the space where
there is nothing to prove and nothing to protect; where I am who I am, in the
mind and heart of God, and that is more than enough.
Spirituality
teaches us how to get naked ahead of time, so God can make love to us as we
really are.
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