Fireworks fail to Spiritual Multiply

[I know this entry doesn't follow the pattern, but you have to trust me its a good one.]

At FOCUS staff training you live in community. We are priviledged to get to know and live with a group of 7-8 of young men or women. Each group is celebrated in a college named by a patron saint. This year I was in the college of St. Catherine of Siena. But this is beside the point. Each week you gather together as men and women and discuss a topic of choice. This week we gathered as FOCUS women to discuss honor.

Yes that is right, honor. In a society today where honor is seen as a weakness. The word honor comes from the root honesty. It was a beautiful presentation on how we need to have honor in our lives not just with the women around us, but with ourselves as well. If we do not honor ourselves we cannot honor someone else. Honor comes from within like so many other virtues. We need to listen to and be attentive to the needs and anticipate these needs before the other even though they need it. [does that makes sense]

After this wonderful evening, the men of FOCUS had driven their cars to the top of the Abbey and were ready to honor us as women and escort us to the firework show. It was a simple yet beautiful gesture.

During the firework show another missionary and I were joking around how fireworks failed to spiritual multiply. How? Ever seen those fireworks that are so brought and they disperse a few sparks like 4 or 5. But that spark vanishes in the darkness. That spark does not ignite another soul. We are called to be more than fireworks. We are called to be inextinguishable matches. Like fireworks we are called to disperse make more sparks, but we are called to teach those sparks to ignite other sparks and make inextinguishable lights to all the nations. If only life could be that simple.

Honor each other so we can learn and teach to be inextinguishable matches to all the nations.