Monday, November 24, 2008

Reflection for November 19, 2008


You love those who search for truth. In wisdom, center me, for you know my frailty. Psalm 51

“Life is full of internal dramas, instantaneous and sensational, played to an audience of one,” Anthony Pail writes. Whatever you are struggling with internally right now is your call to the next stage of life. Treat it gently. Don’t try either to stamp it out or make it happen. Just ask yourself what you are being allowed to learn from it. That’s wisdom.

Joan Chittister, Songs of Joy

“It is good to have an end to journey towards,” Ursula Le Guin writes, “but it is the journey that matters in the end.” How we get where we get is often more important in the end than getting there. The goodness of the work itself, the joy of the sharings while we do it and the love we find along the way, whether we succeed at it or not, now that’s what makes life, life.

Ibid.