Stepping Outside the Frame
Quoting (as nearly as I can remember) one of our wise
Dominican Brothers, “Sometimes we can’t see the picture when we’re standing
inside the frame.”
I
experienced that the afternoon of the 2nd full day of our annual
Community Days gathering of 400+ Sisters and Associates. As uplifting and hopeful as the days were for
me, (and they were,) I found myself caught up in the machinations – the nuts
and bolts - of issues about which conversations were taking place, and which
were very necessary. I looked around me,
watching everyone hunched over, heads together, the buzz of conversation
filling the air, and wondered, “What am I doing here? Why, again, did I leave my family, my friends, my job, my house, my
car?”
At that
point, I stepped outside the frame and surveyed the scene through a different
lens. And I quickly remembered. I remembered that what I left for was Mission… to work with like-minded women
and men who wanted to fulfill God’s Mission, to bring about the Kingdom of
heaven among all of God’s people. And it
just so happens that we each responded to that call in the context of Dominican
life, in living shared Dominican values, as followers of Dominic and our
founder, Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, as servants of God. We are family and we are so blessed!
Sometimes
when I find myself in the midst of a picture, especially a noisy, colorful,
abstract one, it’s helpful to venture outside the frame. Fresh perspective often brings clarity…
clarity of purpose, clarity of life, clarity of Mission.
Sr. Kathy Flynn
Sinsinawa, WI
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