One way of looking at life is that it is a never ending circle. We are people of habit, making the same mistakes, continually acting in the same old, known ways. History repeats itself over and over. We may ask if we ever learn. However, habit and routine do serve a good purpose, for they allow us to assume a manageable way for approaching life. The older I get, the more I appreciate that routine matters. We may apply this paradigm for living life to a better purpose, for achieving better, life giving and desired outcomes.
The pandemic is showing up our world for what it is and what is lacking in it. This makes us realize that this is a time not simply to wait and regroup when it is over. Rather, as Pope Francis is pointing out, this time of the pandemic is calling forth overdue and needed change for the sake of humanity, is calling forth the new era.
Change is possible but it is not easy for it challenges us to step outside of our routine. This is risky stuff. Maybe change could be defined as our creating new routines or as our being flexible with life routines. So do we just undo how we normally do life and do life in new and better ways? This may sound easy, but it is not.
How then to reform for the new era? Apply the cyclical nature of human behaviour to a new paradigm that can become our new routine? Adopt and live the Pastoral Cycle? Let our life's circle of routine be spiritually and radically reformed to be one of praying, reflecting, acting. Think about it.
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