"if we choose to say yes to God, we are able to bring new life into the world," James Martin, S.J.
What if we thought we had wholeheartedly said 'yes' to caregiving? Some of you may have actually done that, but I'll bet many of us feel caregiving was cast upon us. And, it doesn't have to be caregiving that we are talking about; it can be any dilemma in which we find ourselves. One of my favorite stories around the Christian holiday of Christmas is the Annunciation. When the messenger, represented as an angel, tells Mary she, a virgin, is to give birth, and she says 'yes'. "Let it be with me according to your word." The reason this is a favorite of mine is that I think it symbolizes the spiritual life. The Divine seeks us out, we are usually hesitant or afraid, we try to understand what the Divine wants of us, and eventually we either say yes or no to the invitation.
What would our caregiving look like if we considered it a task into which we were invited by the Divine, and a task to which we said 'yes'? I think it might look quite different. Let's try on the idea that this caregiving is a Divine appointment for us. If so, how do we want to do it?
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