”Jesus uses a number of mixture images that illustrate this world and unless you learn how to see, you don’t know to separate;you get lost in the weeds and can’t see the wheat (matt 13:24-30) when a student comes and says, “should I pull out the weeds? Jesus says “No” Let them grow together until harvest. Then, at the end of time, HE will decide what is wheat and what is weed. This idea has had little effect on Western moral Theology. But WE are a mixture of weed and wheat and we always will be. As Luther put it, simul Justus et peccator. His whole tradition said we are simultaneously saint and sinner. That's the mystery of holding wheat and weed together in our one field of life. It takes a lot more patience, compassion, forgiveness and love than aiming for some illusory perfection that is usually blind to it's own faults. The only true perfection available to us is the honest acceptance of our own imperfection.
IF we must have perfection to be happy with ourselves, we have only 2 choices. We can either blind ourselves to our own evil(&deny the weeds) or we can give up in discouragement (&deny the wheat). BUT if we put aside perfection and face the tension of having both, then we can hear The good news with open hearts. It takes UNCOMMON humility to carry the darkside of things. It takes a kind of courage to carry the good side, too. Archtypically, "the crucified one" always hangs between these 2 thieves- paying the price within himself just as we must do. (see Luke 23:32-34;note Jesus forgives both thieves.)
Richard Rohr - Everything Belongs
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