{"id":12101,"date":"2020-02-18T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transformingcenter.org\/?p=12101"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T21:58:33","slug":"lent-and-the-human-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transformingcenter.org\/2020\/02\/lent-and-the-human-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent and the Human Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cLent is a spiritual season which calls for greater openness to the word of God and conversion in every area of our lives. It is a time to face the darkness within and expose it to the light. Lent is the season to confront our demons and expel them.\u201d<\/em> Michael Ford, <em>Eternal Seasons<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>\u201cJesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led (\u2018driven\u2019) by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness where for forty days he was tempted by the devil.\u201d<\/em> Matt. 4:1<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This being human is complicated. We long for more in our spiritual lives, that\u2019s for sure, but we\u2019re not always ready for the harrowing journey of suffering, death, burial and resurrection that any true spiritual journey entails.<\/p>\n<p>We want God as long as we can still have our successes, too. We like the idea of being on a journey of faith as long as it doesn\u2019t require too much\u2026well, faith. We dream of a promised land but we don\u2019t want to leave anything behind. We want space for God as long as it doesn\u2019t intrude too radically on our packed schedules and conflicting priorities. We want self-knowledge as long as it doesn\u2019t cut too close to the ego bone. We desire to know and do God\u2019s will as long as it doesn\u2019t make us look foolish. We want love as long as it\u2019s not too inconvenient. We\u2019d like to buy the pearl of great price as long as we don\u2019t have to sell everything we have. We wax eloquent about the Paschal Mystery one weekend a year as long as we\u2019re not the ones doing the dying!<\/p>\n<h3>Not a Career or a Success Story<\/h3>\n<p>In one penetrating statement, Fr. Thomas Keating captures the mystery of the human struggle at the heart of any true spiritual journey. He writes, \u201cThe spiritual journey is not a career or a success story. It is a series of humiliations of the false self that become more and more profound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally?? You\u2019ve got to be kidding!\u201d we might exclaim. What are we to do with the fact that the true spiritual journey must and always will involve very real humiliations of the false self\u2014we who believe that bigger is better and more is\u2026well, more? We who have learned to measure everything by numbers and new innovations, bigger buildings and \u201cchurch growth plans,\u201d slick marketing campaigns and taking everything \u201cto scale\u201d? How do we\u2014who struggle to discern the difference between the true self and the false self and who have (in some cases) gotten quite proficient at harnessing the things of God to our false self programs\u2014learn to surrender to the humiliations of the false self so that something truer can emerge? In a culture that celebrates all things \u201cup and to the right\u201d, how do we come to grips with a journey that is more accurately understood as \u201cdown and to right?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>It\u2019s Complicated<\/h3>\n<p>These are the complicated themes embedded in the Scriptures that will usher us into the Lenten season next week. In Matthew 6, the passage that kicks off the season of Lent every year, Jesus draws attention to these aspects of the human struggle, warning us that we can take even the most spiritual ideas and practices (almsgiving, prayer, and fasting) and place them in service of \u201cthe old man\u201d or the false self by making a public display of them. Turns out, Jesus says, we can become quite masterful at promoting ourselves, rationalizing, making excuses and defending ourselves rather than practicing the art of dying\u2014dying to that which is false within us so that what is truest in us can live. As Richard Rohr commented, \u201cJust because you\u2019ve read a few good books doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ve surrendered the ego and fallen in love with God.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>How, we might wonder, did Jesus know to call attention to the finer nuances of the human struggle? The answer is simple: it is because he faced these struggles himself when he was led by the Spirit (Mark\u2019s gospel says \u201cdriven\u201d) from the warmth and affirmation of his baptismal moment into the wilderness to wrestle with the subtle temptations of the spiritual life. Clearly, this was a prerequisite to his earthly ministry; it is what prepared him to be who he was among us.<\/p>\n<h3>Facing the Emptiness<\/h3>\n<p>The Lenten journey is patterned after Jesus\u2019 forty days in the wilderness where we too, must face the subtle temptations to the false self so that we can be \u201ccleared out\u201d for real ministry. Here we face our own demons and they are rarely what we think! It is not just the temptation to drink pop or eat sweets or enjoy a glass of wine\u2014as real as those temptations become after we have given them up for Lent! In the emptiness created by whatever it is we are fasting from, we become more aware of the compulsions of the false self and it is pretty ghastly stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Here we experience the evil one\u2019s proficiency at crafting very subtle and dangerous appeals to the instinctual patterns and false self programs we rely on for safety and survival, significance and success, power and control. We see how far we have to go on the journey of learning to trust God and God alone in the wilderness of our most primal impulses and needs. We are appalled to learn that the false self can and will co-opt anything\u2014including God and the things of God\u2014to secure our own survival, to prove ourselves to others, and to appear successful by whatever standards the group we identify with measures such things. If we are on a true spiritual journey, none of us escapes this basic human struggle\u2014not even Jesus.<\/p>\n<h3>With Jesus in the Wilderness<\/h3>\n<p>A true Lenten journey demands that we look clear-eyed at our lives and wonder, Where am I tempted to place even the things of God in service of my instinctual responses to the human situation? In what ways am I tempted to \u201cturn these stones into bread\u201d \u2013using whatever gifts and powers God has given me in order to secure my own survival? Where am I putting God to the test\u2014continually \u201cthrowing myself down\u201d in a display of ministry heroics in order to prove something to myself and others\u2014expecting God to come to my rescue time and time again? When, where and how am I tempted to worship \u201call the kingdoms of the world and their splendor\u201d \u2013 i.e. the outward trappings of success\u2014rather than seeking the inner authority that comes from worshipping God and serving him only?<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cseries of humiliations\u201d Keating refers to have a lot to do with becoming more and more aware of how omnipresent our false self patterns are and how regularly we are caught in their grip. This can get pretty uncomfortable. But the good news is that \u201cevery movement toward the humiliation of the false self, if we accept it, is a step toward interior freedom and inner resurrection.&#8221;<sup>2<\/sup> And just in case we don\u2019t know what to do with the temptations we encounter in this inner wilderness, we can be assured that we are in the wilderness with Jesus, the one who knows how to deal with the wild beasts of our false self stuff.<\/p>\n<p>As we read in Matthew\u2019s gospel, Jesus was able to perceive exactly what each temptation was really about so he could deal with it at that level. He knew that Satan\u2019s strategy for derailing what God is trying to do in our lives is to seduce us to apply false self strategies to our very human impulses to survive and stay safe, to prove ourselves to others, to be seen as successful, powerful, and in control. Being able to discern what each temptation was really about enabled Jesus to decisively reject false self solutions in favor of the spiritual opportunities to trust himself to God. With each response, Jesus abandoned himself more profoundly to the reality of God\u2019s providence and provision in the face of his most primal human needs and impulses\u2014which is what the spiritual journey is really all about.<\/p>\n<p>Such decisive responses cleared the way for God\u2019s angels to come and minister to him and it prepared him for ministry that had been purged of any sort of lesser agenda. Jesus\u2019 wilderness experience was the crucible that qualifies him to be our great high priest who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. And the temptations he faced \u201care the primal and universal temptations that all humans must face before they dare to take on any kind of power\u2014as Jesus is about to do. They are all temptations to the misuse of power for purposes that are less than God\u2019s purpose. Jesus passes all three tests and thus \u2018the devil left him\u2019 because he could not be used for lesser purposes. If you face such demons in yourself, God can and will use you mightily. Otherwise, you will, for sure, be used!\u201d<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<h3>Journey with us Through Lent<\/h3>\n<p>Lent is just around the corner, and we are invited to enter this season as an opportunity to face more bravely the complexity of the human struggle for authentic transformation through greater surrender to God. To support this journey, <b>we are launching a brand new season of the<em> Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership<\/em> podcast entitled \u201cRuth and Friends: Spiritual Transformation and\u2026.\u201d <\/b>In conversation with friends who bring expertise and insight into various aspects of the transformational process, we will face different aspects of the human struggle honestly and bravely, seeking God\u2019s help to transcend the false and live into the True. <b>The season kicks off with three episodes featuring conversations with Fr. Ronald Rolheiser on mature discipleship and the three struggles.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.3;\">1 Richard Rohr, <em>Spirituality in the New Millennium<\/em>, October 3, 2009. \u00a0| 2 Richard Rohr, <em>Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Len<\/em>t (Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2011), p. 23-24. | 3 Thomas Keating, <em>The Human Condition<\/em> (New York: Paulist Press, 1999), p. 38, 42.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.3;\">\u00a9Ruth Haley Barton, 2020. 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