{"id":14243,"date":"2025-05-19T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2025-05-19T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:06:50","slug":"spiritual-amnesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/give-us-this-day\/spiritual-amnesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Amnesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-\u2014-roman---no-indent--PLS\"><em>Published on May 17, 2025, in <a href=\"https:\/\/giveusthisday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Give Us This Day:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-\u2014-roman---no-indent--PLS\">\u201cSeeing is believing,\u201d the old saying goes. Yet in <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/readings\/051725.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today\u2019s first reading and in the Gospel<\/a>, those who have seen with their own eyes\u2014people hearing the words of the recently converted Paul, as well as disciples who have been at Jesus\u2019 side throughout his ministry\u2014cannot reconcile what they have seen and heard with the larger message. Jesus asks, \u201cHave I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-\u2014-roman\">He might ask us the same question, if he were to stand before us today. We have spent years, maybe our entire lives, listening to the teachings of Jesus, receiving him in the Eucharist, professing that he and the Father are one. Still, there are probably days when, like the disciples, we approach Jesus with a bit of spiritual amnesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-\u2014-roman\">It\u2019s not that we haven\u2019t listened; it\u2019s that we have listened with our ears rather than our hearts. The good news is that we do not always have to fully understand in order to receive the graces that flow from God toward a seeker with a sincere heart. \u201cO God teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life,\u201d Thomas Merton writes in one of his early journals. \u201cTeach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in the darkness and that works things I cannot see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-\u2014-roman\">Today, let us put aside the need to know it all and let us trust in the mystery beyond all knowing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-\u2014-Reflection\"><em>Mary DeTurris Poust, \u201cSpiritual Amnesia,\u201d from the May 2025 issue of Give Us This Day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giveusthisday.org\/\">www.giveusthisday.org<\/a>\u00a0(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2024). 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