Are You Home?
Today
worrying means to be occupied and preoccupied with many things, while at
the same time being bored, resentful, depressed, and very lonely. I am
not trying to say that all of us are worried in such an extreme way all
the time. Yet there is little doubt in my mind that the experience of
being filled yet unfulfilled touches most of us to some degree at some
time. In our highly technological and competitive world, it is hard to
avoid completely the forces that fill up our inner and outer space and
disconnect us from our innermost selves, our fellow human beings, and
our God.
One of the
most notable characteristics of worrying is that it fragments our lives.
The many things to do, to think about, to plan for, the many people to
remember to visit, or to talk with, the many causes to attack or defend,
all these pull us apart and make us lose our center. Worrying causes us
to be “all over the place,” but seldom at home. One way to express the
spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address
but cannot be found there.
Henri Nouwen
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