I went to mass as I always do during lunchtime on Wednesday.
It was the Feast Day of St Clare of Assisi. During the homily, the priest spoke about how she had taken to a life of poverty, abstinence from meat, speaking only when necessary. A life of simplicity and detachment. A life focus on the choice she made as a faithful disciple.
Have I lost my focus in life when I rush around busily? When I tell my 4 year old that I am busy and is unable to read to him? Or watch my daughter's latest dance moves? Or not being able to go swimming with them, because I am much too tired from all the housework? Or wave my eldest away when he tried to tell me the book he just finished?
Have I stop working to live, but instead now live to work? Have I forgotten how to live and my life is now define by work? What am I working for? If it is for a material object, can I do without?
Can I learn to be like St Clare and live a life of simplicity and detachment?
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