{"id":19224,"date":"2020-08-21T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19224"},"modified":"2020-08-21T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T14:04:42","slug":"going-on-the-full-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19224","title":{"rendered":"Going on the Full Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Order, Disorder, Reorder:<br>\nPart Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Going\non the Full Journey<\/strong><br>\nFriday, \u202fAugust 21, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LAcRxNbUThs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>This journey from <em>Order<\/em>&nbsp;to <em>Disorder<\/em>&nbsp;must happen for\nall of us. It is not something just to be admired in Abraham and Sarah, Moses,\nJob, or Jesus. Our role is to listen and allow, and at least slightly cooperate\nwith this almost natural progression. <em>We\nall come to wisdom at&nbsp;the major price of both our innocence and our\ncontrol.<\/em>&nbsp;Few of us go there willingly; it must normally\nbe thrust upon us. However, we must be wary of staying in <em>Disorder<\/em>&nbsp;for too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone\ngets tired of critique after a while. We cannot build on exclusively negative\nor critical energy. We can only build on life and what we are&nbsp;<em>for<\/em>, not what we are against. Negativity keeps us in a state\nof victimhood and\/or a state of anger. Mere critique and analysis are not\nsalvation; they are not liberation, nor are they spacious. They are not\nwonderful at all. We only become enlightened as the ego dies to its pretenses,\nand we begin to be led by soul and Spirit. That dying to ourselves is something\nwe are led through by the grace of God. When we move into the Larger Realm of <em>Reorder<\/em>, we will weep over our sins, as we recognize that we are\neverything that we hate and attack in other people. Then we begin to live the\ngreat mystery of compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\nis no nonstop flight from <em>Order<\/em>&nbsp;to <em>Reorder<\/em>, or from <em>Disorder<\/em>&nbsp;to <em>Reorder<\/em>. We must dip back into what was good, helpful, and also\nlimited about most initial presentations of \u201corder\u201d and even the tragedies of\n\u201cdisorder.\u201d Otherwise we spend too much of our lives rebelling and reacting.\nI\u2019m not sure why God created the world that way, but I have to trust the\nuniversal myths and stories. Between the beginning and the end, the Great\nStories inevitably reveal a conflict, a contradiction, a confusion, a fly in the\nointment of our self-created paradise. This sets the drama in motion and gives\nit momentum and humility. Everybody, of course, initially shoots for\n\u201chappiness,\u201d but most books I have ever read seem to be some version of how\nsuffering refined, taught, and formed people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintaining our initial order is not of itself happiness. We must expect and wait for a \u201csecond na\u00efvet\u00e9,\u201d which is <em>given<\/em>\u00a0more than it is created or engineered by us. Happiness is the spiritual outcome and result of full growth and maturity, and this is why I am calling it \u201creorder\u201d (much more about that next week). Generally, we must be taken to happiness\u2014we cannot find our way there by willpower or cleverness. Yet we all try\u2014usually heading in the wrong direction! We seem insistent on not recognizing this universal pattern of growth and change. It seems that each of us has to learn on our own, with much kicking and screaming, what is well hidden but also in plain sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-10.03.16-AM-500x310.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-10.03.16-AM-500x310.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-10.03.16-AM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-10.03.16-AM-768x476.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-21-at-10.03.16-AM.png 1898w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order, Disorder, Reorder: Part Two Going on the Full Journey Friday, \u202fAugust 21, 2020 This journey from Order&nbsp;to Disorder&nbsp;must happen for all of us. It is not something just to be admired in Abraham and Sarah, Moses, Job, or Jesus. 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