Accept Your Humanity

 Bernadette Roberts

Accept your human condition as suffering God's Redemptive work in you (and in others), really accept it, and stop wishing you were Divine. Sometimes I think the main reason that people get into spiritual life and the journey is to get out of suffering, which means they really want to be Divine and have not honestly accepted their humanity -- which, after all, is God's first will for us. When the Logos accepted becoming human It accepted suffering. In this we must be like Christ, do as he did, accept our humanity and all it means, which is to suffer God's transformative, redemptive work in us, and in the whole world.

Personal Letter, © Bernadette Roberts 1998