Si Revera Deum Quaerit?

Do you truly seek God?

Anyone who wants to come to God must believe that there is a God and God rewards those who sincerely look for God.

Hebrews 11:6

This is the primary question that haunts contemplatives, namely, What are we all about? When this is answered 100% affirmatively that we are all-in for God, then the next step entails how to go about it? For those who have actually experienced God mystically, then the commitment is an easy one, but it is the methodology that becomes a matter of discernment.

So why anyone takes a rigid taskmaster in this is beyond me. There are certainly set parameters - a historical context - to this calling...at least within the Judeo-Christian faith there is. And scripture and the tradition show that God exercises a great deal of latitude within which God chooses to be exposed. So it should certainly be highly circumspect when someone tries to convince another that their spirituality, their prayer, their idiosyncrasies, their tastes, their likes and dislikes, their interpretations, their rituals and routines, and their theology are normative for all contemplatives at all times and in all places and in all circumstances. To promote this only exposes the lack of elementary humility in regard to another's integrity, and uniqueness, and differences, and needs, not to mention the manner in which God's revelation has already taken place to that person. How arrogant could you become? God is love. If that is not there then something else is going on. But beyond that, let it be.