26 February 2019 (A day late. Internet problems)
UNLESS YOU BECOME LIKE CHILDREN… (Mark 9: )
‘Unless you become like little children you will not enter the
kingdom of heaven’. It is as though in
our earliest days we were people of purity, simplicity and truth. As time went on we learnt the hard way that
the world was hostile and we had to either conquer it or defend ourselves from
it. We took up attitudes towards others
and the world that we instinctively judged would help us survive. But in doing
so we compromised with our own true worth and that of others. Jesus does not want us to go back to being
children but he does call us to recognise the gifts and values we were born
with and that we even lived for a while.
He calls us to recognise the authentic gifts that make up the lives of
each of us and to develop them and use them with purity for the good of
others. This may sound very theoretical
but I have just been reading the life of Thérèse Vanier and she lived this out
in practice in a life totally dedicated for others.
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