back in town

returned august 20th.

busy.

Vacation

I will be away for a short while where I cannot access the internet. I will read and reply to you upon my return at my own convenience.

You can email me, leave comments, or even write letters. All I will not be able to respond to until I return ... but I'd love it all the same!

If you do want to write:

Miss Singer
PO Box 2939
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274

I'll see you all in a short while. By then I should have done sufficient reading to have some pithy quotes to post, at least!

Take Care,
~ Megan

A cheeky aside

Patience is a virtue

To be Christ-like, yet reject those who actively try to be like Christ?

We as Christians are called to be like Christ. What does it look like to be like Christ? Self-sacrifice, loss of family and friends, renunciation of the world, being grounded in the Will and desires of the Father more than any other thing; a fostering of a multitude of virtues.

Could there be a lifestyle that would embody this likeness of Christ? We could say we find it in the life of priests, sisters, monks, nuns, and brothers.

If we are called to be like Christ, and to embrace Him, as the Son of God and the Son of Man ... why do we find a rejection of those who endeavor to live like Him?

In fewer words, why among even devout Catholics, is there such a distancing from those with a vocation?

** Thursday Edit**

Hidden One, I think you hit the nail on the head. Many people say "Lord bring us more vocations, but not my son or daughter!" It's guilt-tripping us for actually "daring" to listen to the Lord. Heck, I don't want to be one of those Christians, who say they love God and give their life to Him, but don't. I don't want to have to learn what that means on Judgment Day! Already we know that the Lord will be disgusted by those who are complacent (ie, Revelation's passage that says He will spit out the complacent like cold soup); what will be His reaction to those who truly are hipocrites (spelling?) ?

A quotation

Walter Brueggeman, in a book on the prophets entitled Hopeful Imagination , suggests that "a sense of call in our time is profoundly countercultural," and notes that "the ideology of our time is thatwe can live an 'uncalled life,' one not referred to any purpose beyond one's self." I suspect that this idol of the autonomous, uncalled life has a shadow side that demands that resist the notion that another might be different, might indeed experience a call. Our idol of the autonomous individual is a sham; the truth is we expect everyone to be the same, and dismiss as elitist those who are woriking through a call to any genuine vocation. It may be that our culture feats the necessary other that it has grown unable to identify and name real differences without becoming defensive about them.
-- Kathleen Norris, The Cloister Walk