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THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Thought for the Day # 61 - Friday, May 15, 2020

“Order of Priorities”

Dear brothers and sisters,
We continue to be in state of containment, even when the possibility of
relief is on the horizon. We have had the opportunity throughout that time to
review our lives.
I have a question for you today: what is the order of priorities in your lives?
What was it before this confinement? Through confinement or being forced
by the lockdown into a kind of retirement, have you revised your order of
priorities? What is first? In the different facets of life there is God, there are
others, there is oneself, there is the family, there is society, there is the Church.
How do you see your order of priorities?
If most of the time we put ourselves first, if what is first is “me, myself and
I”, then it weakens “us” in times of trials, because we don’t really know how to
give meaning to our lives. If life is going well, it seems to be to our advantage
and maybe it seems satisfactory, if it ever is. But when put to the test, we find
ourselves a little without a sense of meaning: why am I alive? Why should I go
through this ordeal when things are not going well, when things are terrible?
Why should I keep moving forward? How to move forward through the ordeal
when we put ourselves as the first above all priorities?

How do you revise your order of priorities?
We will have a chance in the next Thought for the Day to reflect further on
this.

Collection of texts by the Most Rev. Christian Lépine 72