how do I exit well?

Homily

Thursday of the 4th Week in Ordinary Time C2

St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas

3 February 2022

+Blaise, bishop and martyr

AMDG +mj

How do I exit well?

Transitions are a necessary part of life.  We might as well embrace them, rather than fear them.  To live is to change, and to live well is to transition well.

Sr. Ruth Kuefler gave a meditation to our staff yesterday that was so good.   Her point was that you can't exit well if you haven't stayed well.  Her comments echoed Jesus' seemingly circular but really insightful instructions to his disciples in today's Gospel.  Stay in the same place until you leave from there.

Many of us never embrace the full reality of where we are.  We are always wishing we were somewhere else.  Sr. Ruth in echoing our Lord's advice is absolutely right.

If you are able to stay somewhere well, so too will you exit be when it happens.  Yet there's no way to exit well if you first fumble the staying.

So I guess the real question is . .  how can I be where I am?