Today’s complex world has for many turned their “normal life” upside down. These challenging times of pandemic virus, resulting in serious health concerns, isolation, unemployment, food shortage, and uncertainty about the future, bring fear and confusion. In addition, across the world, social justice issues arise in ever more striking ways, causing us to reconsider the very structure of society. Violence against marginalized peoples is no longer hidden but rather displayed daily on our social media and in our streets. And we are all faced with the question, to what is all of this chaos calling me? Who am I in the midst of such turmoil and pain? Who have I been and who do I desire now to be? What is my response today and what will it be tomorrow? We are all now called to look at the very fiber of ourselves and our society, but where and how to begin?
Life, even in its whole and healthy form, brings change, brings movement, and calls forth from each of us a stance, a way of being. To live our life in an intentional way, then, each of us needs to enter into and live out of discernment. As Parker Palmer in his short but powerful book, Let Your Life Speak, reminds us, “Embracing one’s wholeness makes life more demanding – because once you do that, you must live your whole life.”
Sr Sharon Gray SCN
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