Last Friday, I attended the funeral mass for a
twenty-six-year-old woman. The loss to
her family and friends was heartbreaking.
The collective grief was vast and nearly overwhelming. But the love – the shared, inspiring,
comforting love – was the most powerful presence.
The recessional hymn was, “Here I am, Lord.” In that hymn, to God’s question, “Whom shall
I send?”, the refrain is “I will go Lord, if You lead me.”
When we seek a spiritual calling, when we experience such a
calling, and when we act on such a calling, we are addressing, connecting with,
and strengthening that seed or spark of the Holy Spirit – of the spirit of love
– which is within each of us.
And
when we come out from our spiritual and emotional bunkers to answer that call,
we experience a freedom which is attainable in no other way.
