No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act
MORNING PRAISE December 11, 2019 Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Advent No One Can Determine the Right Time to Act Ecclesiastes3:1-15 A few months ago, somebody asked me what advise I would give my tattered, depressed, self-loathing 25-year old self. The answer came quick: “Arvisu will happen.” “Arvisu will happen.” It’s amazing how much power those three words wield. Because my 25-year old self would have gladly suffered through everything I was going through and everything else that I had to go through if only for the certainty that someday, twelve years down the road, I will find myself giving up so many things for the opportunity to discern the possibility of the religious life as a Jesuit. I probably would have been a far happier person while waiting. I probably would have been more prudent with my actions. I probably would have loved more deeply. On the flip side, however, I would like to think that the 12-year wait that led me here has given me a far better sens