The Lord cares, despite all of our silliness. We are the kind of being God loves. God's love doesn't depend on our doing nice or right things. Yet it's an illusion to think that any of us would operate totally beyond self-interest.
We're doing it in part for ourselves, and God, in great love and humility, says, "That's what I work with. That's all I work with!" It's the mustard seed with which God does great things. Thank God!
True recognition of our basic egotism is a humbling experience, but a liberating one, too.
from Richard Rohr, Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
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