"The stone that the builder refused will always be the head cornerstone........what we refuse, we lose."
Bob Marley
I love all things Bob Marley. He was a great musician, mystic and spiritual and social activist. I recently watched the documentary Marley and found out more about him. He was born the outcome of a brief affair between his mother, a poor black Jamaican,and his father, a white British soldier. Bob had virtually no contact with his father as a child and attempted to establish a relationship with his father when he was a young adult. His father refused to be a part of his life, an action which devastated Bob and was the inspiration for the song Cornerstone (above). One can only wonder if Bob's father later regretted turning him away when Bob Marley became famous and wealthy.
This holiday season I have been thinking about reconciliation, the union with and embrace of what is. In the Catholic church reconciliation is the sacrament of confession and penance. After the rite, which an act of raw honesty and clarity of vision, we are reconciled with the divine once again. "What we refuse, we lose." By embracing whatever comes our way, even though perhaps it may seem like something we might not like at the time, we are returned to the divine embrace.
What are we refusing, denying, hiding, refusing to see or pushing away?
Shine the light of truth on the subject- how do we feel, what do we believe, what part did we play in creating the situation? (this is fertile- what do we believe to be true- this will never change for example- when the reality is that all things change all the time)
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