Comments on: The Choice http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2009/06/29/the-choice/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:22:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2009/06/29/the-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Paul Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:35:51 +0000 http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/?p=1511#comment-757 Eric, I love the notion of God as the "Fixer of Broken Dreams." Some people mock and/or envy Catholics because we can repair our brokenness so easily through the Sacraments. I love Oscar Wilde's line that, "the only difference between a saint and a sinner is that a saint has a past and a sinner has a future." Paul Eric,

I love the notion of God as the “Fixer of Broken Dreams.” Some people mock and/or envy Catholics because we can repair our brokenness so easily through the Sacraments.

I love Oscar Wilde’s line that, “the only difference between a saint and a sinner is that a saint has a past and a sinner has a future.”

Paul

]]> By: Eric http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/2009/06/29/the-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Eric Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:04:31 +0000 http://peopleforothers.loyolapress.com/?p=1511#comment-747 I would rather not detail my foolhardy decision, one that was truly foolhardy and hardly altruistic. Many years later Fr. Jim Hanley, S.J., of the California Province reviewed my life with me. He pointed out that I ended up with my beloved wife and my equally beloved daughter and a good career. He taught me to think of God as Fixer of Broken Dreams. Even when we do not come close to deserving it or living up to the original dream, God can take the wreckage of a broken life and reform it into a new dream, a new set of loving gifts. How much more then will God take the generous, open-hearted risks that Fr. Dan took and make a whole new set of dreams and gifts out of these. I would rather not detail my foolhardy decision, one that was truly foolhardy and hardly altruistic. Many years later Fr. Jim Hanley, S.J., of the California Province reviewed my life with me. He pointed out that I ended up with my beloved wife and my equally beloved daughter and a good career. He taught me to think of God as Fixer of Broken Dreams. Even when we do not come close to deserving it or living up to the original dream, God can take the wreckage of a broken life and reform it into a new dream, a new set of loving gifts. How much more then will God take the generous, open-hearted risks that Fr. Dan took and make a whole new set of dreams and gifts out of these.

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