Lent Reflections.. Fifteenth Day..."“WHY CHANGE?" Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Why change?

 

“It seems that human beings who try to avoid changing themselves always set out on a destructive course of trying to change the world, others, or even God”, says Richard Rohr.

 

How else can you explain the attitude of the people of Judah towards prophet Jeremiah who fearlessly exposed their corruption and for that they wanted to put him to death.

 

Anything other than changing themselves! Carl Jung would say that to avoid the legitimate suffering of being human, we inflict untold suffering on others, and finally actually bring more suffering on ourselves anyway.

 

It takes a great deal of courage to change oneself in addition to true humility. The easy way out will be blame others and avoid to total question of why should I change.

 

In the Gospel Jesus seems to be inviting his inner circle to follow him on the path of redemptive suffering instead of redemptive violence.

 

Jesus insists that we make of the preemptive and positive and positive move into “drinking of the cup” ourselves instead of always asking others to drink it.

 

The two apostles wanted to be ‘enthroned’ instead of suffering. Typical of human nature we don’t want to change ourselves; we want to change others instead.

 

What aspect of my life, attitude, vision, way of life should I change during this lent?

      How could I be true to be myself?

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZfqp4hHu0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZibL9w2U8

 

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