For Gates of Hope

We are challenged to stand with the living Christ at the gates of hope. It is the place of truth-telling, about our own souls first of all and their condition; the place of resistance and defiance, the place from which we see the world both as it is and as it could be, as it will be; the place from which we glimpse not only struggle, but joy in the struggle. We stand there, with the Christ who sets us free, beckoning and calling, telling people what we see, asking people what they see.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Holiness of work -- December 10, 2009

Work, Joan Chittister writes, is what we do to continue what God wanted done. We were not put on earth to be be cared for. We were put on earth to care for it. (page 86,87)

That is our work. Which is not always easy, because work for me often ends up being what needs to get done, and God's intentions get lost in the process.

I carry my work a little more lightly when I think of it as holy rather than as duty. When I can see my work as integrally connected with God's ongoing act of creation, I live with a greater level of freedom.

I am working at that.