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It's in the Receiving that we Receive

8/22/2016

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I’m a HUGE fan of St Francis (“it’s in the giving that we receive”). I was ordained a priest on Oct 4, his feast day. It happens to be my godmother’s (the kind of godmother that you adore from day one) birthday. And when I arrived at the Camino of Santiago two years ago, the day after the burial of my mother’s remains, it just so happened that it was the 400 year anniversary of St Francis walking the Camino. Pause to wipe a tear…
 
But, it’s in the receiving that we receive. The only way we have to give something is to have it first. To let it move through us and work in us, so it can pour out of us. That means we have to receive. I lived a life for quite a while where I lived as though the more I gave, the more I received. But because what I gave was most precious to me and what I gave was without discernment, and because who I gave to did not care about the me that was giving, the result was emptiness.
 
These days I’m thinking of me first. It’s hard because I love service. I love being for another. I love giving to another. I love thinking of another. But now I’m the other and I’m being thought of by me.
 
And so I say, it is the receiving that we receive. When I feel well, simple, and secure, it is because I am attending to the all of me that is me. I have to remind myself each day and return to myself over and over and over again. 

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