I have come to fall in love with teaching in Catholic schools. What are YOU in love with?...

"Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you will do with your evenings, how you will spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything." - Pedro Arrupe

Thursday, February 2, 2012

STOP and think...

On the way home from a favorite Thursday night tradition (a.k.a. Wing Night), I happened to notice a STOP sign that had the small lettering of "judging" at the bottom. It looked kind of like this:


It took me a second for the "message" to register, but then I realized that someone was trying to say something important: Stop Judging.

And yet, I wondered also how many people had driven by that same stop sign without seeing the small word below. This got me to thinking that in order to see and hear the messages around us, we need to first be aware and notice our surroundings - people, signs, events, etc. Only then will our ears and eyes be opened to receive the message that is waiting for us.

It's time to STOP and take a look around. A message may be staring us in the face, but that won't matter if we are looking in the other direction...

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