Sep 26th, 2012
“Ad primum ergo dicendum quod finis, etsi sit postremus in executione, est tamen primus in intentione agentis. Et hoc modo habet rationem causæ.” ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiæ I- II, 1, 1.
…my favourite (or at least most quoted) Thomas Aquinas quotation. Because it is all about where we are going. If you know where you’re going, and what your aim is, then the rest will follow. So I find myself asking:
where to, Lord? What next, personally and perhaps especially, lately, as community and Church? Open my heart in the direction of yours and I will be there…and I do think it is about learning to see as God sees. I watched an old but amazing film the
other day:
“See what nobody else sees; see what everyone else
chooses not to see, out of fear or
conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew…
”
And that’s scary, but it’s what I’m asking for. we
have one life. Many gifts, many
challenges, many lights…and one life to do it in.
I pray Lord, it won’t be fear or
conformity that stops us.
I’m not sure I’m looking for greatness but I do kno
w we are called to great things,
and that in order to do them, God needs us free and
creative.