Franciscan Fractal
Contemplating Today’s Culture through the Eyes of St. Francis & the Life of Christ
“A Lenten Dialogue with God”
Hey God.
God: Hello, my loved one.
I'm falling apart. Can you put me back together?
God: I would rather not.
Why?
God: Because you aren't a puzzle.
What about all of the pieces of my life that are falling down onto the ground?
God: Let them stay there for a while. They fell off for a reason. Take
some time and decide if you need any of those pieces back.
You don't understand! I'm breaking down!
God: No - you don't understand. You are breaking through. What you are
feeling are just growing pains. You are shedding the things and the
people in your life that are holding you back. You aren't falling
apart. You are falling into place. Relax. Take some deep breaths and
allow those things you don't need any more to fall off you. Quit holding
onto the pieces that don't fit you anymore. Let them fall off.
Let them go.
Once I start doing that, what will be left of me?
God: Only the very best pieces of you.
I'm scared of changing.
God: I keep telling you - YOU AREN'T CHANGING!! YOU ARE
BECOMING!
Becoming who?
God: Becoming who I created you to be! A person of light and love and
charity and hope and courage and joy and mercy and grace and
compassion. I made you for more than the shallow pieces you have
decided to adorn yourself with, that you cling to with such greed and
fear. Let those things fall off of you. I love you! Don't change!
Become! Become! Become! Become who I made you to be. I'm going to
keep telling you this until you remember it.
Oh, no. There goes another piece of me.
God: Yup. Let it be.
So...I'm not broken?
God: No - but you are breaking like the dawn. It's a new day. Be Still!
And in me, Become!! Become!!
Prayers and Blessings,
Fr. John
Credits: John Roedel, author and adapted by Jim Burns
