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QUESTIONS THAT PERSIST
There
are certain questions that have stayed with me throughout these
past three or four decades – each one arising from an earlier
one, each one leading me on. One of my early questions as a
secondary school principal was: what is it to be a person?
This
led to the next question – What is the responsibility of a
school in facilitating personal development? And how is this
personal development to be fostered? I saw the woundedness of
the people around me; I was acutely aware of my own woundedness.
How can a school be a healing community? I asked myself.
But,
healing is not enough; beyond healing - what facilitates
healthy, creative living? I pondered on these questions and I
attempted to translate into action the fruit of my pondering –
not with any great positive effect, I must confess. However the
reflections continued, and led me to both psychology and
contemplation. The words of Jesus recorded in John 10:10 kept
ringing in my ears: “I have come that you may have life; life in
abundance.”
The continuing persistence of these questions through the years,
inevitably led to the question of transformation. How can this
broken humanity of ours be transformed? And transformed into
what? The answer could be nothing else than – transformed into
the living God! So let me try to pull the pieces together |
