I have recently found the words to describe the writing of this blog, and perhaps my greater and more ernest life effort in both living and reflecting. Richard Rohr calls it our own interaction with “the Shadow Self”.

He refers to it as…

…hidden from our own awareness. It takes a life-long practice to look for, find, and embrace what we dismiss, deny, and disdain…. It is one of the great suprises on the human journey that we come to full consciouness precisely by shadowboxing, facing our own contradictions and make friends with our own mistakes and failings. People who have no struggles are invariably superficial and uninteresting.

Earlier in his recent writing Rohr talks about how St. Francis of Assisi

…made a revolutionary and pre- emptive move into the shadow self from which everyone else ran.

Perhaps this is what I am seeking to do as well, make a pre-emptive step into the shadow self to look around and become friends with it.