God breaks rules

I'd like to offer just a short thought today, from Richard Rohr's book, The Naked Now

"Good theology always protects God's total freedom, and does not demand that God follow our rules. Jesus does this explicitly in John's Gospel several times: 'The spirit blows where it wills. You can hear and see it by its effects, but you do not now where it comes from or where it goes" (3:8).

For some reason, we forget that every time God forgives or shows mercy, God is breaking God's own rules, being inconsistent and rather non-dualistic. Once you have known grace, your tit-for-tat universe is forever undone: God is everywhere and always and scandalously found even in the failure of sin. In fact, there is no place left where God cannot be found" (pg 77-78).

Our task is to find God. To let go of the small stuff. To take on the mind and heart of God by letting go of the tit-for-tat in favor of grace.

That is the true kingdom of God on this earth. That is finding the spirit wherever it blows.