From today’s Gospel: “. . . whoever loses his life for my
sake will find it.” (Matthew 16:25)
The more I reflected on these words, the more I realized
that this, too, is a call to journey: to journey away from something to arrive
at something waiting for us, something that God has planned for us, something
that he calls us to, when and if we are ready to lose what we already have or
know.
William Bridges expresses it nicely: “To become something else,
you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you
have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or
outlook, you have to let go of the old one you have now.” (from Transitions: making sense of the difficult
changes in life, William Bridges, p. 80)
What is the Lord calling you to lose? To what is he inviting
you? We most likely will not know the answer to the second question until we
have the courage and the faith to negotiate the first.
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