The need for security can be such a block in life. It keeps us where we are, yes, but worse it can keep us from discovering where we must be if we are ever to grow into full stature.
The Radical Christian Life
Sister Joan Chittister, OSB
Learning to balance a sense of security with our yearnings for new horizons is one of the biggest challenges of living into the third part of our lives. This puzzlement can stymie us with either inaction or compulsiveness, but it can also be a catalyst if we allow it to lead us to a connection with God. Through that connection, we learn that no matter what, we are always being called forward and deeper into our own lives. We are not running away, but moving towards a vision that is so much more than we realize. May even a glimpse of that dream be bigger than our fears.
A few days ago I spent some time with a woman who just turned 70. She is struggling with mobility, partly because of a significant weight gain. She told me that in her last physical therapy appointment, she rose from her wheelchair and stood for five seconds. She then looked around from the pinnacle of her own two feet.
Heroic is the only word that comes to mind. It is to such that we are called.
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