Meandering With The Interim: A Simple Thought for the New Year

I might attempt to write something deep and profound but when someone else with far more credentials than I have says it so much better why try. David Brooks is one of my favorite writers/philosophers and I found this a while back. I would like to share it with you as we shashay into the New Year.

“How to find your purpose. The wrong thing to do is to ask, “What do I want from life?” The right question, as Victor Frankl put it, is “What does life ask of me?” What problem is out there that I’m equipped to tackle? The answer to your life’s deepest questions are not inside, they are outside.

I hope to practice what a friend calls “aggressive friendship”: being the one to issue the invitations, willing to see and treasure the singularity of each human person, approaching each person with the certain knowledge that the he or she is made in the image of God.

I’m hoping to just be available a little more. There are just random times when a friend or maybe a stranger on a plane wants to connect. I’m hoping that if someone knocks on my door they will find it already open.”

Quote from David Brooks Commence Address at Boston College 2021

What does life, Jesus ask of you?

C. Christopher Thompson+

Interim Rector

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