"Acting Versus Reacting"
"Acting Versus Reacting"
Most people I’ve known in my lifetime react, they do not act. They spend their whole life reacting to circumstances and always consider themselves the victim of circumstances. Seldom do you see anybody choosing: This is what I want my life to be, and this is the ten-year plan to where the family is going to go. It was so inspiring to me when some of our young families of the New Jerusalem Community did just that: They decided to hold their level of consumerism in their family at their 1975 salary or whatever it might have been. They decided that was enough to live a comfortable life and any raises that came after that would just be icing. They wouldn’t add to their consumption; they would find more ways to be generous and give it away. Now those are people with direction, with purpose, who are living out of real gospel values, not reacting but acting, choosing, deciding.
Richard Rohr, from A Man’s Approach to God
Most people I’ve known in my lifetime react, they do not act. They spend their whole life reacting to circumstances and always consider themselves the victim of circumstances. Seldom do you see anybody choosing: This is what I want my life to be, and this is the ten-year plan to where the family is going to go. It was so inspiring to me when some of our young families of the New Jerusalem Community did just that: They decided to hold their level of consumerism in their family at their 1975 salary or whatever it might have been. They decided that was enough to live a comfortable life and any raises that came after that would just be icing. They wouldn’t add to their consumption; they would find more ways to be generous and give it away. Now those are people with direction, with purpose, who are living out of real gospel values, not reacting but acting, choosing, deciding.
Richard Rohr, from A Man’s Approach to God
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