To
have faith is—to use the current jargon—to live outside the box,
risking, venturing, believing the impossible. When we remain in the
narrow confines of our perceptions, our thoughts, or our hopes, we live
in a very cramped way. We become closed off to the
possibility that sometimes, the power of faith is manifested in
spectacular and immediately obvious ways. When someone consciously and
confidently opens himself to God, acting as a kind of conduit, the
divine energy can flow.
Faith
allows someone to live in detachment from all of the ups and downs of
life. In the language of St. Ignatius of Loyola: "Lord, I don’t care
whether I have a long life or a short life, whether I am rich or poor,
whether I am healthy or sick." Someone that lives in that kind of
detachment is free, and because they are free, they are powerful. They
are beyond the threats that
arise in the context of this world. This is the source of dynamis, of real power.
Bishop Robert Barron
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