Clearing the Roadblocks tests patience

When we have an insight which we believe will help a loved one we often become impatient if we encounter resistance to our efforts. The Roman Catholic Lectionary for today reminds me of these impatient experiences. The Hebrew people are becoming impatient with God as they wander in the desert. These wanderings of our spirit in the dark and ego spaces can produce spiritual death. Like the Hebrew people, we need to lift our eyes and Spirit with the recognition that our Life is outside and beyond ourselves. John reflects the frustration and impatience of Jesus with those who are head strong with intent to remove Him from their lives without a single consideration of the possibility that He is the Divine guide for them and the people. Many experience the lifting of their indwelling Spirit through His Presence, the ‘stiff necked’ are frustratingly blocking the movement of invitation to new life.