Each Moment's Challenge

Sometimes we, in the Church, think we have to do and be everything. We need, rather, to learn to be a piece of the puzzle. God's picture is much bigger than the one that we can see. It is true that God has something, probably quite a bit, for us to do. But our task is to respond to God's call, without doing more and without doing less. Paulo Coelho has a helpful saying in his "Manual of the Warrior of Light" (HarperCollins, 2002) - "A responsible warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment" (p. 133).