Sunday homily: Less legalism…lots more love!
Change is invigorating…
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.
“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
Learning to adapt…
Hard truth
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Flannery O’Connor
Are you open to constructive criticism?
It’s never too late…
Patience…
“Don’t strain to make things perfect. Life in the present order will never be perfect, so don’t stretch to put everything right, to order all persons and things once and for all. Life is about living in the balance of the unbalanced, the imperfect, the never finished, the never totally secure, never quite happily ever after. We have to learn to live with the mess.” This Blessed Mess – Patricia Livingston.
Life is messy!
Other’s opinion….
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison