Reflection on Good
Friday
The Price of Integrity
The CEO of one of the consulting companies I once worked for was
not particularly present over the years to company employees like me who were
multiple steps down the corporate “ladder”. But one day he spoke to a group of
us that were in training and he told us, “Never lose your integrity.” I will
forever respect him for making that statement so I could hear it. Another way I
view that statement today, many years later, is to become aware and then stay awake
to your true self as a child of God.
Our scriptures say clearly that we are children of God. Wow! You
and I and all of us are children of the all-powerful and all-wondrous God!! With
our trinity God, there is infinite inclusion, infinite mercy, and infinite
forgiveness to go along with infinite goodness. We have been called as God’s
children to become our true selves as people like Jesus: people of love, people of inclusion, people
of mercy, people of forgiveness, and people of hope even if we feel rejected at
times for doing so. May our personal integrity and the integrity of our
community in our awareness as God’s children leave us no other choice, as is
the case for Father Massingale. May preserving our integrity give us resolve to
continue our journeys as God’s children. Such continuing resolve will allow our
crosses to become easier to bear. And as we continue bearing those crosses, we
will bear more fruit. And the cross that Jesus bore will become lighter for Him
as well.
Dave B.
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