This week’s Angelus column is about Mother Antonia Brenner (1926-2013), a Beverly Hills wife, mother and socialite who visited Tijuana’s notorious maximum security prison, chucked it all, moved into her own cell, and ministered to the prisoners for decades. In all that time, she summed up, “I’ve never had a moment of depression.”
If you’re anything like me, every once in a while, from out of nowhere, come the thoughts: What’s it all for? Have I ever really offered anything, sacrificed anything, meant anything? Is what I do just busy work, performed robotically simply so I don’t lose my mind?
Maybe fall more than any other season tends to bring such musings on.
Anyway, the other day I realized: You are thinking as man does, not as God does (Viz. Mt. 16:23, Mark 8:33).
Only humans, with our egos and desire to “make a mark,” are remotely concerned with such things. Look at God, who creates gazilions of flowers, trees, clouds, and people, none of which/whom are ever really seen or cherished or appreciated. I’m sure He appreciates all efforts on our own part to pitch in, help carry the load, persevere.
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