When we see the storms that hit
Fiji we can often feel connected and at the same time remote from the disaster.
Unless we personally know somebody who lives there, if we have visited Fiji or
have some association with the islands we can feel both concerned and distant.
This contradiction can disturb us because we want to help and almost feel
powerless at the same time. However, each person is created for God’s mission
to immerse ourselves in the day to day life and not to become remote from it.
We are called to search for the freedom inside themselves which is convicted of
God’s joy and life. It calls us to reach out to human beings out of respect and
friendship confident that God’s love is displayed in how we become present to
the normal events of daily life. Essentially what makes us human and Christian
enables us to live out our vocation. This is not only as a person loved by God but
as a person who is able to help transform our world and be a messenger of God’s
grace. We are called to do what we can, not what we can’t.
Ultimately, it is not by
self-perfection that we encounter God. Christianity is not another self-help
program. It is a relationship which enables us to become transformed by God’s
loving mercy. Thus it is an integration of our whole life which is expressed
whenever we gather to celebrate Eucharist. God calls together not people who
have made it, but people on the journey.
How does God call me to be
present to others this week?
What is God revealing to me about
my own life?
What is being transformed in my
community by God’s grace?
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