As the semester winds down it seems impossible to keep up
with the pace. In the never ending check
list of commitments, assignments, papers, and tests I think that we as students
here forget that our purpose here is much deeper than all of the busyness and
schoolwork. I have a secret for you…we
are here to fall in love.
Now before you get upset with me for suggesting that all of
those tuition dollars are going towards and elaborate dating scene, I should
clarify what I mean by falling in love. I
do not mean this in the romantic sense, but rather, the practical sense. This sense
of falling in love is finding who you are at your very core. This love is what will sustain you in your
friendships, your relationships, your career, and beyond. This love is what makes you feel alive.
Falling in love in this sense is best described in the beautiful words
of Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
“Nothing is more practical
than finding God,
than falling in Love in a
quite absolute, final way.
What you are in love with,
what seizes your imagination,
will affect everything.
It will decide what will get
you out of bed in the morning,
what you do with your
evenings,
how you spend your weekends,
what you read,
whom you know,
what breaks your heart,
and what amazes you with joy
and gratitude.
Fall in Love,
stay in love,
and it will decide
everything.”
- Pedro Arrupe, S.J.
So,
with that in mind I ask you, what makes you feel alive?
It’s
a difficult question, but an essential one to say the least.
What
is it that seizes your imagination?
What
gets you out of bed in the morning?
What
do you think of when you are thinking about nothing at all?
There is something that makes each and every person here come
alive in a beautiful and unique way. My
challenge to you is to find what makes you feel alive and to embrace it, pursue
it, and let it guide you. Do not let
your God-given passion be kept as only a portion of your being…let it consume
you and radiate from you.
“The glory of God is the
human person fully alive.” –St. Irenaeus
AMDG
Adam
Dirnberger is the SERVE Social Justice Intern in Campus Ministry.
