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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
I think of people who have lost a limb in an accident, or who have suffered through a very slow recovery from a life-changing concussion that they received. How some of them in not being able to do things the way they used to (in order to be considered whole by the current standards in today’s world) give up and become emotionally unstable; or others who go off on their own and become embittered or angry. These people may not portray an image or a way of being that we might want to imitate.
I think of my dear friend Germaine who helped me to get around and past my own limitations and challenges. She was born unable to speak or control and use most of her muscles and yet she was the living example of joy and gratitude, of love. She was not bound by certain conditions.
I look at the conditions that the early missionaries had to cope with when they came to this country – they were unbelievably difficult. Today there is a common way of thinking that it is all about ourselves and doing it our way. Yet, we are all “sent to evangelize the poor: the poor are evangelized” and we can only do this if we ourselves are emotionally and spiritually healthy.
I think of some of our Oblates who in today’s world face seemingly impossible challenges and who remained in Ukraine as the war was ramping up. They are still there and are being true to their calling as Oblates of Mary Immaculate. It is the same for many of the committed Lay Oblates and Associates around the world. It is community and evangelization (within themselves and outwardly with others) that gives witness and invites us to walk with them. Community and evangelization – are always possible if we follow and live within the Rule of Life and with each other.
It is about … the quality of their lives: their being in order to do.” How they and how we may achieve more through our witness than our words and specific actions.