Are you insane?

There is an expression you cannot tell a book by it's cover. Yet in our world we are called to make instant judgments and instant decisions. A lot of our time we are driven to choose with the mind and not the heart. There is so much pressure to respond that we feel we are losing contact with ourselves. We lose a sense of how our lives cry out for meaning and hope.
We become used to making judgments about the life of others when we say their crazy or that is inhuman. Yet do we ponder that they may also say the same about us. We know the importance of advances in mental health which help us to respond with love and concern to those who are struggling with those issues which are often invisible to the eye but not to the heart. Yet at the same time we also need to discover a way of being present.
We need to discover in prayer how God calls us to stand naked in his presence. This is a spiritual nakedness which has the honesty to our own internal sense that I do not know myself and I do not love myself. Only with God can we be honest about ourselves. In this way we discover we are known and loved. In this place we find how we can be present to others from a place where we are truly known and truly loved.