Drawn By Love

Drawn by love, rather than driven by power.  That is what I hope for.

With contemplation we change sides from the inside—from the power position to the position of vulnerability and solidarity, which gradually changes everything. Because now we are allowing ourselves to change and grow!

Once we are freed from our paranoia, from the narcissism that thinks we are the center of the world, or from our belief that thinks our rights and dignity have to be defended before other people’s rights and dignity, only then can we finally live and act with any justice or truth. Once these blockages are taken away from us—and that is what contemplative prayer does—then we just have to be offered a few guiding statements on social justice or other thorny issues—and we tend to get it for ourselves. We start being drawn by love instead of being driven by power.

 Fr. Richard Rohr