THREE STAGES OF SPIRITUAL LIFE #2

Joan Chittister wrote on the Three Stages of Spiritual Life (yesterday’s Red Mountain Journal entry records stages one and two).

“Finally, the third level of the spiritual life is transformation. It requires that we ourselves begin to “put on the mind of Christ.” We ourselves begin to think like the Jesus of the Mount of Beatitudes. We face what it means to be just in an unjust world, meek in an arrogant one, humble in a domineering one, compassionate in a prejudiced one, full of grief for those who suffer from suffering not of their own doing, compassionate for those who are oppressed by the indifferent of the world.
 
Then the truly spiritual soul sees the world as God sees the world and sets out to make it right.”

“For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Jesus