From “The Soulwork of Justice: Four Movements for Contemplative Action” by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson.
Your True Self dwells in an intimate and expansive connection to God’s love. Through that sacred portal you can be present in solidarity to all that God loves, and to the pain, brokenness, and suffering of all that seeks to resist the redemptive power of that love in the world. This is what it means to be “in Christ. The intersection of the divine and human, of the spiritual and material, fully revealed in the incarnation, is the place where your identity is discovered, where your life is beckoned, and where your belonging is secure. Your True Self dwells in connection to this Life.
However, it’s no small task to discover this sacred connection amid the hectic normalcy of your everyday life. The cracks in your facade are easily repressed when you’re convinced that you are doing good work, even critical work. Like saving the planet, confronting racism, and stopping war. Unswerving, indefatigable commitment to a cause, with prophetic urgency, is the catalyst for social change. But if you allow such a cause to smother attention to inner motives, vulnerabilities, and ego needs, you will pay a personal price. In the end, the cause itself can be tarnished. As Richard Rohr says, “It’s possible to do the right things for the wrong reasons!”