Reflections for 2/13/10

"Always we have to find our love, then give our love away. Sometimes it isn't easy to give or to see. We must love where we are called to love, and sometimes that means loving people and institutions that really turn us off." (R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p. 78)

Have you ever found yourself doing something you never would have pictured yourself doing? Perhaps a job or some volunteer organization. There are times in life when because we pocess some skill set, or something gets stirred deep within, that ignites a passion we didn't know we even had that gets us into those kind of situations.

We never fully know where we will land when we go out into the world in faith, following our heart. Sometimes we even wind up in a place where we ask how'd I get here, this is the poorest excuse for a well run organization. These people here are nuts. And yet somehow you know that's where you're supposed to be, and somehow you are able to do what you are called to do, because the One that called you there is faithful also.

There is not doubt that loving people and institutions that turn us off and make us angry is incredibly hard. Loving people and institutions that are just like me is easy. But I will not grow loving the easy. I will never know where my true passions lie, if I don't attempt to love and engage the hard places.

Blessings,
Ed