Inspired to Engage

Honest listening leads to understanding and greater engagement.

Genuine understanding of the other allows the Holy Spirit to be heard. When the Holy Spirit speaks, energy levels increase. This increase in positive energy gives motivation to engage more fully in the often-messy work of honest searching and community building.

Faith, hope and charity are divine gifts made possible when we do not overreach in our desire to control. They are the fruits of divine inspiration. Likewise, in our pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty – the transcendental virtues – we come to them through inspiration, through the agency of the Holy Spirit.

So, only when we acknowledge and honour the agency of the Holy Spirit is honest engagement with the world a possibility. When we are inspired, we are ready to engage, to move to action. When this action includes willing the good of the other person in the concreteness of their everyday experience, then we have found our way to “love each other as [Jesus] loves us” (John 13:34).