The Divine has no Debt

The same love that characterizes the divine is endlessly generous, which can be hard for us mere mortals to imagine. We rather like the idea of debt, the idea of owing and being owed—a nice, neat cycle of explainable relationships with enjoyably nasty emotional dynamics that we hope to use to our advantage.

There’s nothing less explicable than the idea that debt does not exist to the divine. Actions and consequences do, but even those are a part of the endless force of love which pours out life into us all.

One of the tasks that faces a priest is to be given a series of tools with which to work, and to be allowed to work, for good or evil, with those tools. The spirit gives priests the room to discover their own flaws, to discover where their character is less than it should be. It is exactly the room a priest needs to fuck around and find out, and they cannot learn what it is to be an adult without it.

Even if those tools are withdrawn because the priest cannot yet or will not behave appropriately with them, the tools are withdrawn in love, to prevent greater consequences.

The divine is not spiteful, and each life is an opportunity to try again. We are all here, in life over and over, until we are all divine.

People keep saying, in front of me, that they are afraid they’ll mess up, that they’ll do something awful and owe a terrible debt. They express the spirit as angry, vengeful, spiteful, and observing.

I always want to tell them that there is no debt in the divine. You have an infinity of chances, with the spirit’s infinite generosity and in the infinite love of the divine.