Fr. Don's Daily Reflection - December 12, 2024
Psalm 62: “In you alone is my soul at rest. My help comes from You.”
Ignorance plays a part in our decisions, our actions. Not only what we know about a place we're going to or a job we're taking, but what we don't know often ends up being quite significant. Isn’t our ignorance part of our preparation? Our ignorance often results because we don't ask or don't even have enough knowledge to know what to ask. None of us ever guessed what a virus like Covid-19 would mean for human life.
Some ignorance is based on too narrow a perspective; if we aren't comparing the heat and humidity of a particular city with the fresh and crisp climate of another it might be for lack of a wide-enough angle in our camera.
Should we spend more time, more study in trying to see all angles before ever acting or moving? That could be pretty stultifying, enough to stop us in our tracks for a long time. Our ignorance is another word for the inevitable risk involved in so many things we undertake. Not knowing all the difficulties in advance is good in the long run.
We grow into an ability to deal with elements which, if foreseen, might have frozen us into immobility. Some lack of knowledge, some obscurity, the unknown, these are all part of life, of the next moment. Accepting that is another part of accepting that we are not “masters of the universe,” that we depend on and come from Another.
Psalm 27: “I believe I shall see the Lord’s goodness / in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord; be strong; / be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord!”
