The semester is starting to kick into gear! The schoolwork is starting to pile and I think I'm safely behind in all of my classes. It's finally Friday (I was SO tempted to make another Rebecca Black reference but I think one is enough, though I still reserve the right to slip in a Ke$a reference). This week was a bit of a hard one, especially Wednesday!
On Wednesday, I had my first formation meeting of the year. In seminary, we each have a formation director whom we meet with once a month to discuss how things are going, what we need to work, and progress in growth. The meeting went very well and I adore my formation director and trust him implicitly. The difficulty came in the fact that I've been asked to cut out something very dear to me. Seminary life, or any discernment, often demands of us sacrifices and many of these are legitimate good things that we very good for us up to the point that Christ holds out His pierced hand and asks for them. The idea being that we need to strip away the "ands" from our lives. I'm a priest and... I'm a mother and... or I'm a Christian and... Everything gets stripped away so that it's only God and us and then we can see what He wants once the clutter is gone.
This is one of the most painful aspects of our Christian life, sacrifice. If we remember everything in our lives is subordinated to or brought under God. This means we are in a position to give gifts to Christ! We can say to Him, "I love you so much I'm going to give you this..." The great thing is that when Christ points to something and says, "I want that," we are guaranteed that we will ultimately come out the benefactors from the transaction. Every gift we give Christ is just one more gain for us.
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