How do we move from a crisis to a cause?
Assuming most of our early years were somewhat peaceful and acknowledging that for some people that was not true we begin to realize how we have been protected by life as a young person. People looked out after us. We were loved and sheltered. We were nourished. In many ways we were appeased. We came to think that life was supposed to be this way.
We experience a problem or a crisis in our lives and we begin to think that life isn't what we thought it was. Life isn't fair or just and we are appalled by the incongruity of it. It is disillusioning and it sets us up to do something about it.
Once we get over being personally offended we can see ourselves as appointed to take on the task that nobody wants to do. We accept the appointment of the problem and it becomes our cause for life.
If we find a cause in life our lives have meaning and if we carry out that cause the best we can we will achieve something important. The cause could be great or small. The cause could give us reason to hope or bring us to despair.
What is your cause? Do you have one?
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I look forward to hearing from you.
Charles Schuster
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