FACING-UP

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 3, 19 June 1984, Page 12

FACING-UP

If you look up a chimney on a clear day, and keep looking, when your eyes get used to the dark, you see stars in the sky. So too is it when we look into the mysteries of ourselves, of this life and of our destiny. We have to look, and seek, and reflect, if we hope to see. and find. . The quality of life might well show up for you against the backdrop of the following considerations. They must be read thoughtfully and slowly, with an open, enquiring mind. • We are not born ourselves — we become ourselves. • Deep down, each of us has a desire for spirituality. •Without God, separated from God, we are as nothing. • We are all born imperfect. • Self-centredness. begets self-hatred, begets self-de-struction. • Through self-awareness and self-realisation, to Godcentredness and othercentredness, man is raised in his spirit and truly liberated. • It is in relationships with others that we come to realise ourselves. • Like mirrors, clear to receive and reflect, two

people can see themselves, and find themselves, in one another. • The authentic person of . the human race is Jesus Christ. • Mary Magdalene 'turned' before she recognised Christ. • His spirit is among us.

• If I decide I want to be like Jesus, I can. • To be rooted in the establisfred order of yesterday is to have stopped growing and be decaying. • The Spirit of God is at work in all peoples. Fr B, Vella